Logical Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives

by Merrilee H. Salmon and Wesley C. Salmon

Book Overview

Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and the nature of scientific explanation, formed among the famed Vienna and Berlin Circles of the 1920s and '30s and dominated the philosophy of science throughout much of the twentieth century. In recent decades, a "post-positivist" philosophy, deriding empiricism and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822959496
• ISBN13: 9780822959496
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"