Overcoming Logical Positivism from within: The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate. Thomas E. Uebel

1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-337
Author(s):  
T. A. Ryckman
Keyword(s):  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Protocol Sentence Debate

Review of Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance.

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 833-833
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Logical Positivism

Greek Logical Positivism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Fejfar ◽  
Anthony Blackstone ◽  
Anthony J. Faber
Keyword(s):  
Logical Positivism

Beyond Logical Empiricism

Dialogue ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Shea
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Theoretical Language ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Logical Empiricism ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Logical Positivist ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Logical Empiricist ◽  
Paul Feyerabend

The mainstream of the philosophy of science in the second quarter of this century—the so-called “logical empiricist” or “logical positivist” movement—assumed that theoretical language in science is parasitic upon observation language and can be eliminated from scientific discourse by disinterpretation and formalization, or by explicit definition in or reduction to observational language. But several fashionable views now place the onus on believers in an observation language to show how such a language is meaningful in the absence of a theory.In the present paper, I propose to show why logical positivism failed to do justice to the basic empirical and logical problems of philosophy of science. I also wish to consider why the drastic reaction, typified by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, fails t o provide a suitable alternative, and to suggest that the radical approaches of recent writers such as Mary Hesse and Dudley Shapere hold out a genuine promise of dealing effectively with the central tasks that face the philosopher of science today.

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