Talking at cross-purposes: how Einstein and the logical empiricists never agreed on what they were disagreeing about

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0229-1zbMATH Open1302.03003OpenAlexW2096775792MaRDI QIDQ484899FDOQ484899

Authors: Marco Giovanelli 

Publication date: 8 January 2015

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9234/1/Talking_at_Cross_Purposes_-_Correction.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

Albert EinsteinHans ReichenbachHermann Weyllogical empiricismepistemology of geometryMoritz Schlick

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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