The heritage of logical positivism

Abstract

These essays originated from an international conference of the same name. collection brings together philosophers and historians of philosophy for fruitful interchange to foster the current revival of interest in this important sector of 20th century philosophy. Contents: Empiricism: Key Question, Wesley C. Salmon; Pragmatics and the Principle of Empiricism, Brian Skyrms; Logic of 20th Century Empiricism, Joseph Hanna; Reduction Sentence Meaning Postulates, James H. Fetzer; Context of Justification, John Kekes; Logical Positivism and the Demise of Moral Science, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord; The First Man who almost wholly understands me: Carnap, Dingler and Conventionalism; Conventionalism Reconsidered, Werner Diederick; Carnap's Scientific Realism: Irenic or Ironic?, Richard Creath; Idealism and the Aufbau, Alberto Coffa; Neo-Kantian Origin of Hans Reichenbach's Principle of Induction, A. Kamlah. Co-published with the Center for Philosophy of Science.

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