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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This is the second of six volumes with translations and reprints of classic papers of logical empiricism, mainly from the 1930s, ``when logical empiricism was at its most confident phase''. Contents: \textit{Moritz Schlick}, ``The turning-point in philosophy'' (pp. 2-8) [translation from Erkenntnis 1, 4-11 (1930; JFM 56.0035.11)]; \textit{Rudolf Carnap}, ``The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language'' (pp. 10-31) [translation from Erkenntnis 2, 219-241 (1932; Zbl 0003.28903)]; \textit{Moritz Schlick}, ``Positivism and realism'' (pp. 33-58) [translation from Erkenntnis 3, 1-31 (1932)]; \textit{Rudolf Carnap}, ``On the character of philosophic problems'' (pp. 59-73) [reprint from Philosophy of Science 1, 5-19 (1934)]; \textit{Otto Neurath}, ``Physicalism'' (pp. 74-79) [reprint from: Philosophical papers, 1913-1946 (ed. by R. S. Cohen et al.), 52-57 (1983)]; \textit{Rudolf Carnap}, ``On protocol sentences'' (pp. 81-94) [translation from Erkenntnis 3, 215-228 (1932; Zbl 0006.09808)]; \textit{Otto Neurath}, ``Radical physicalism and the `real world' '' (pp. 96-110) [translation from Erkenntnis 4, 346-362 (1934; Zbl 0010.05102)]; \textit{Rudolf Carnap}, ``The logicist foundations of mathematics'' (pp. 111-122) [translation from Erkenntnis 2, 91-105 (1931; Zbl 0002.32101)]; \textit{Arend Heyting}, ``The intuitionistic foundations of mathematics'' (pp. 122-131) [translation from Erkenntnis 2, 106-115 (1931; Zbl 0002.32102)]; \textit{Hans Hahn}, ``Discussion about the foundations of mathematics'' (pp. 133-140) [reprint from: Empiricism, logic, and mathematics. Philosophical papers (ed. by B. McGuinness), 31-38 (1980; Zbl 0434.03002)]; \textit{Karl Menger}, ``The new logic'' (pp. 141-178) [reprint from Philosophy of Science 4, 299-336 (1937)]; \textit{Carl G. Hempel}, ``On the logical positivists' theory of truth'' (pp. 179-189) [reprint from Analysis 2, 49-59 (1935)]; \textit{Herbert Feigl}, ``The logical character of the principle of induction'' (pp. 190-199) [reprint from Philosophy of Science 1, 20-29 (1934)]; \textit{Rudolf Carnap}, ``Testability and meaning'' (pp. 200-265) [reprint from: Classics of analytic philosophy (ed. by R. R. Ammerman), 130-195 (1965)]; \textit{Moritz Schlick}, ``What is the aim of ethics?'' (pp. 267-283) [reprint from: Problems of ethics (ed. by D. Rynin), 1-17 (1962)]; \textit{Charles Leslie Stevenson}, ``The emotive meaning of ethical terms'' (pp. 284-301) [reprint from Mind 46, 14-31 (1937)]; \textit{Charles W. Morris}, ``The unity of science movement and the United States'' (pp. 303-307) [reprint from Synthese 3, 25-29 (1935)]; \textit{Otto Neurath}, ``Unified science as encyclopedic integration'' (pp. 309-335) [reprint from: International encyclopedia of unified science. Vol. I (ed. by O. Neurath et al.), 1-27 (1938)]; \textit{Warren Goldfarb} and \textit{Thomas Ricketts}, ``Carnap and the philosophy of mathematics'' (pp. 337-354) [reprint from: Wissenschaft und Subjektivität (edited by D. Bell et al.), 61-78 (1992)]; \textit{Sahotra Sarkar}, `` `The boundless ocean of unlimited possibilities': Logic in Carnap's `Logical syntax of language' '' (pp. 355-401) [reprint from Synthese 93, 191-237 (1992)].