Reconsidering Logical Positivism

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Michael FriedmanCambridge University Press, 8/21/2008EAN 9780521624763, ISBN10: 0521624762Paperback, 276 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishIn this collection of essays on e of the preeminent philosophers of science writing offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary philosophical movement centered around the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and 30s. Michael Friedman argues that the logical positivists were radicals not by presenting a new version of empiricism (as is often thought to be the case) but rather by offering a new conception of a priori knowledge and its role in empirical knowledge. This collection will be mandatory reading for any philosopher or historian of science interested in the history of logical positivism in particular or the evolution of modern philosophy in general.PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Geometry, Relativity, and Convention1. Moritz Schlick's Philosophical PapersPostscriptgeneral relativity and General Theory of Knowledge2. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory3. Geometry, convention, and the relativized a prioriReichenbach, Schlick and Carnap4. Poincaré's conventionalism and the logical positivistsPart II. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt5. Carnap's Aufbau reconsidered6. Epistemology in the AufbauPostscriptCarnap and the Neo-KantiansPart III. Logico-Mathematical Truth7. Analytic truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language8. Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus9. Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematicsBibliographyIndex. Show more