Author(s): Ronald N. Giere (ed.), Alan W. Richardson (ed.)
Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science XVI
Edition: 1st
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 401
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction: Origins of Logical Empiricism......Page 10
PART I: THE CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT......Page 24
Constructing Modernism: The Cultural Location of Aufbau......Page 26
Overcoming Metaphysics: Carnap and Heidegger......Page 54
Neurath against Method......Page 89
The Enlightenment Ambition of Epistemic Utopianism: Otto Neurath's Theory of Science in Historical Perspective......Page 100
PART II: SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY......Page 122
Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism: Rudolf Carnap and the Development of the Categoricity Concept in Formal Semantics......Page 124
Einstein Agonists: Weyl and Reichenbach on Geometry and the General Theory of Relativity......Page 174
PART III: LOGIC, MATHEMATICS, AND PHILOSOPHY......Page 220
The Philosophy of Mathematics in Early Positivism......Page 222
Carnap: From Logical Syntax to Semantics......Page 240
Languages without Logic......Page 260
PART IV: EXPERIENCE, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE, AND EMPIRICISM......Page 276
Postscript to Protocols: Reflections on Empiricism......Page 278
Conceptual Knowledge and Intuitive Experience: Schlick's Dilemma......Page 301
From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap's Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s......Page 318
PART V: AFTERWORD......Page 342
From Wissenschaftliche Philosophie to Philosophy of Science......Page 344
Bibliography......Page 364
Contributors......Page 388
E......Page 392
L......Page 393
R......Page 394
Z......Page 395
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P......Page 399
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W......Page 401
