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The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Alan Richardson
Edited by Thomas Uebel
SeriesCambridge Companions to Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:446
Dimensions(mm): Height 226,Width 150
ISBN/Barcode 9780521796286
ClassificationsDewey:146.42
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 September 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Alan W. Richardson is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Thomas E. Uebel is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester.