Logical Empiricism

by Parrini, Paolo; Salmon, Wesley C.; Salmon, Merrilee H.

• ISBN13: 9780822941941
• ISBN10: 0822941945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Paolo Parrini and Wesley Salmon
I. Turning Points and Fundamental Controversies	11	(54)
A Turning Point in Philosophy: Carnap-Cassirer-Heidegger	13	(17)
Michael Friedman
Carnap's "Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language": A Retrospective Consideration of the Relationship between Continental and Analytic Philosophy	30	(13)
Gottfried Gabriel
Schlick and Husserl on the Essence of Knowledge	43	(14)
Roberta Lanfredini
Carnap versus Gödel on Syntax and Tolerance	57	(8)
S. Awodey and A. W. Carus
II. On the Origins and Development of the Vienna Circle	65	(58)
On the Austrian Roots of Logical Empiricism: The Case of the First Vienna Circle	67	(27)
Thomas Uebel
On the International Encyclopedia, the Neurath-Carnap Disputes, and the Second World War	94	(15)
George Reisch
Carl Gustav Hempel: Pragmatic Empiricist	109	(14)
Gereon Wolters
III. The Riddle of Wittgenstein	123	(34)
The Methods of the Tractatus: Beyond Positivism and Metaphysics?	125	(32)
David G. Stern
IV. Philosophy of Physics	157	(74)
Two Roads from Kant: Cassirer, Reichenbach, and General Relativity	159	(35)
T. A. Ryckman
Vienna Indeterminism II: From Exner to Frank and von Mises	194	(37)
Michael Stoltzner
V. The Mind-Body Problem	231	(48)
The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism	233	(30)
Michael Heidelberger
Logical Positivism and the Mind-Body Problem	263	(16)
Jaegwon Kim
VI. Scientific Rationality	279	(68)
Kinds of Probabilism	281	(23)
Maria Carla Galavotti	304	(1)
Smooth Lines in Confirmation Theory: Carnap, Hempel, and the Moderns	304	(21)
Martin Carrier
Changing Conceptions of Rationality: From Logical Empiricism to Postpositivism	325	(22)
Gürol Irzik
VII. Nonlinguistic Empiricism	347
Reason and Perception In Defense of a Non-Linguistic Version of Empiricism	349	(26)
Paolo Parrini
Commit It Then to the Flames ...	375
Wesley C. Salmon