The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism

Alan Richardson editor Thomas Uebel editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Sep '07

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This book shows how logical empiricism epitomized analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.

If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. The essays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in central Europe and its acculturation in North America, discussing its main topics, and achievements and failures, in different areas of philosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.

ISBN: 9780521796286

Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm x 25mm

Weight: 598g

446 pages