Verificationism: Its History and Prospects

by C.J. Misak and Cheryl Misak

Book Overview

Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers.
C.J. Misak surveys the precursors, the main proponents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415125987
• ISBN13: 9780415125987
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"