The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

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. -- Publisher Description. The Historical Context Of Logical Empiricism -- Logical Empiricism: Issues In General Philosophy Of Science -- Logical Empiricism And The Philosophy Of The Special Sciences -- Logical Empiricism And Its Critics. Edited By Alan Richardson, Thomas Uebel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 371-417) And Index. Series Copyright Contents Contributors Introduction - Alan Richardson, Thomas Uebel Part One: The Historical Context of Logical Empiricism 1 The Vienna Circle: Context, Profile, and Development - Friedrich Stadler 2 The Society for Empirical/Scientific Philosophy - Dieter Hoffmann 3 From “the Life of the Present” to the “Icy Slopes of Logic”: Logical Empiricism, the Unity of Science Movement, and the Cold War - George A. Reisch Part Two: Logical Empiricism: Issues in General Philosophy of Science 4 Coordination, Constitution,and Convention: The Evolution of the A Priori in Logical Empiricism - Michael Friedman 5 Confirmation, Probability, and Logical Empiricism - Maria Carla Galavotti 6 The Structure of Scientific Theories in Logical Empiricism - Thomas Mormann Part Three: Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of the Special Sciences 7 The Turning Point and the Revolution: Philosophy of Mathematics in Logical Empiricism from Tractatus to Logical Syntax - Steve Awodey, A. W. Carus 8 Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of Physics - Thomas Ryckman 9 Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of Psychology - Gary L. Hardcastle 10 Philosophy of Social Science in Early Logical Empiricism: The Case of Radical Physicalism - Thomas Uebel 11 Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science - Elisabeth Nemeth Part Four: Logical Empiricism and Its Critics 12 Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Physicalism: A Reassessment - David Stern 13 Vienna, the City of Quine’s Dreams - Richard Creath 14 ‘‘That Sort of Everyday Image of Logical Positivism’’: Thomas Kuhn and the Decline of Logical Empiricist Philosophyof Science - Alan Richardson Bibliography Index Series List (continued from page iii) 'The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism' shows how logical empiricism epitomized analytic philosophy in the middle of the 20th century, and features contributions from Friedrich Stadler, Michael Friedman, Elisabeth Nemeth, and editors Thomas Uebel and Alan Richardson