Reconsidering Logical Positivism

by Michael Friedman

Book Overview

In this collection of essays one of the preeminent philosophers of science writing offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical positivism, the revolutionary philosophical movement centered around the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and 30s. Michael Friedman argues that the logical positivists were radicals not by presenting a new version of empiricism (as is often thought to be the case) but rather by offering a new conception of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521624762
• ISBN13: 9780521624763
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"