Reconsidering Logical Positivism

Michael Friedman

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139173193

In this collection of essays one 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.

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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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Part One - Geometry, Relativity, and Convention
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1 - Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers
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2 - Carnap and Weyl on the Foundations of Geometry and Relativity Theory
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3 - Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap
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4 - Poincaré's Conventionalism and the Logical Positivists
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Part Two - Der logische Aufbau der Welt
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5 - Carnap's Aufbau Reconsidered
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6 - Epistemology in the Aufbau
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Part Three - Logico-Mathematical Truth
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7 - Analytic Truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language
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8 - Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus
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9 - Tolerance and Analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy of Mathematics
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Bibliography
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-x

PREFACE
pp xi-xx

INTRODUCTION
pp 1-14

Part One - Geometry, Relativity, and Convention
pp 15-16

1 - Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers
pp 17-43

2 - Carnap and Weyl on the Foundations of Geometry and Relativity Theory
pp 44-58

3 - Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap
pp 59-70

4 - Poincaré's Conventionalism and the Logical Positivists
pp 71-86

Part Two - Der logische Aufbau der Welt
pp 87-88

5 - Carnap's Aufbau Reconsidered
pp 89-113

6 - Epistemology in the Aufbau
pp 114-162

Part Three - Logico-Mathematical Truth
pp 163-164

7 - Analytic Truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language
pp 165-176

8 - Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus
pp 177-197

9 - Tolerance and Analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy of Mathematics
pp 198-234

Bibliography
pp 235-244

Index
pp 245-252

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