Origins of Logical Empiricism
Logical empiricism remains a strong influence in the philosophy of science, despite the discipline's shift toward more historical and naturalistic approaches. This latest volume in the eminent Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series examines the main features of the intellectual milieu from which logical empiricism sprang, providing the first critical exploration of this context by authors within the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy. These articles challenge the...
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Logical empiricism remains a strong influence in the philosophy of science, despite the discipline's shift toward more historical and naturalistic approaches. This latest volume in the eminent Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series examines the main features of the intellectual milieu from which logical empiricism sprang, providing the first critical exploration of this context by authors within the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy. These articles challenge the idea that logical empiricism has its origins in traditional British empiricism, pointing instead to a movement of scientific philosophy that flourished in the German-speaking areas of Europe in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The intellectual refugees from the Third Reich who brought logical empiricism to North America did so in an environment influenced by Einstein's new physics, the ascension of modern logic, the birth of the social sciences as rivals to traditional humanistic philosophy, and other large-scale social, political, and cultural themes.
PrefaceIntroduction: Origins of Logical Empiricism1Constructing Modernism: The Cultural Location of Aufbau17Overcoming Metaphysics: Carnap and Heidegger45Neurath against Method80The Enlightenment Ambition of Epistemic Utopianism: Otto Neurath's Theory of Science in Historical Perspective91Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism: Rudolf Carnap and the Development of the Categoricity Concept in Formal Semantics115Einstein Agonists: Weyl and Reichenbach on Geometry and the General Theory of Relativity165The Philosophy of Mathematics in Early Positivism213Carnap: From Logical Syntax to Semantics231Languages without Logic251Postscript to Protocols: Reflections on Empiricism269Conceptual Knowledge and Intuitive Experience: Schlick's Dilemma292From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap's Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s309From Wissenschaftliche Philosophie to Philosophy of Science335Bibliography355Contributors379Index of Authors383Index of Subjects387
