Reconsidering Logical Positivism
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Reconsidering Logical Positivism
Author: Michael Friedman
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 1999-07-28
A reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism.
Logical Positivism
This 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.
A Parting of the Ways
This work examines how social and political events intertwined and influenced philosophy during the early 20th-century, ultimately giving rise to two different schools of thought - analytic philosophy and continental philosophy.