Reconsidering Logical Positivism
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-28
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521624763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism.
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Reconsidering Logical Positivism
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521624497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays one of the preeminent philosophers of science writing today 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.
Logical Positivism
Author: Oswald Hanfling
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compact, accessible treatment of the main ideas advanced by the positivists, including Schlick, Carnap, Ayer, and the early Wittgenstein. Oswald Hanfling discusses such ideas as the 'verification principle' ('the meaning of this statement is the method of its verification') and the 'elimination of metaphysics, ' an attempt to show that metaphysical statements, for example about God, are unverifiable and therefore meaningless.
Philosophical Papers
Author: Moritz Schlick
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1980-03-31
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9789027709417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant's Construction of Nature
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 645
ISBN-13: 0521198399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.
A Parting of the Ways
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0812697553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent. A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos, Switzerland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed debate was attended by Rudlf Carnap, a representative of the Vienna Circle of logical positivists. Michael Friedman shows how philosophical differences interacted with political events. Both Carnap and Heidegger viewd their philosophical efforts as tied to their radical social outlooks, with Carnap on the left and Heidegger on the right, while Cassirer was in the conciliatory classical tradition of liveral republicanism. The rise of Hitler led to the emigration from Europe of most leading philosophers, including Carnap and Cassirer, leaving Heidegger alone on the continent.
Dynamics of Reason
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Published: 2001-01
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781575862927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts," given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamical and historicized version of the conception of scientific a priori principles first developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. This approach defends the Enlightenment ideal of scientific objectivity and universality while simultaneously doing justice to the revolutionary changes within the sciences that have since undermined Kant's original defense of this ideal. Through a modified Kantian approach to epistemology and philosophy of science, this book opposes both Quinean naturalistic holism and the post-Kuhnian conceptual relativism that has dominated recent literature in science studies. Focussing on the development of "scientific philosophy" from Kant to Rudolf Carnap, along with the parallel developments taking place in the sciences during the same period, the author articulates a new dynamical conception of relativized a priori principles. This idea applied within the physical sciences aims to show that rational intersubjective consensus is intricately preserved across radical scientific revolutions or "paradigm-shifts and how this is achieved.
Why Does the World Exist
Author: Jim Holt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-07-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0871404095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Taking the Naturalistic Turn, Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done
Author: William Bechtel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-12
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780226091860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book presents candid, informal debates among scholars who examine the benefits and problems of studying science in the same way that scientists study the natural world.
Empiricism at the Crossroads
Author: Thomas Uebel
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 0812699297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRather than a monolithic movement of naïve empiricists, the Vienna Circle represented a discussion forum for what were sometimes compatible, sometimes conflicting philosophical approaches to empirical evidence. The Circle’s protocol-sentence debate — here reconstructed and analyzed — provides an exceptional vantage point from which to survey the various options and choices of the participants. Author Thomas Uebel mines the diaries, letters, and notes of the group’s leading philosophers to show how their ideas emerged from real-world arguments, personal relationships, and historical settings.
