Reconsidering logical positivism
a priorianalyticityempiricismepistemologygeneral theory of relativityJFM 54.0060.03Kantianismlogical positivismphilosophy of physicsphilosophy of spacetautologytolerance principle
Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations (03-02) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30)
The volume brings together a collection of some of the author's earlier essays on aspects of Logical Positivism. The author contributed to (and partially inaugurated) a new trend in the history and philosophy of science of reappraising this important movement towards a ``scientific world view. With the reappraisal the author attempts to overcome the stereotyped description of this movement (not least, however, due to programmatic statements by members of the movement) according to which it is a version of philosophical ``foundationalism based on a logicist reduction of mathematics to logic and a justification of the concepts of empirical science on the base of immediate data of sense (cf.\ pp.\ 2-5). According to the standard picture Logical Positivism can also be understood as an \textit{empiricist} epistemology being close to the philosophy of the British empiricists (p.\ 5). Against this views the author stresses the important role of non-empirical principles, axioms and conceptions convincingly showing that this direction continued staying close to some aspects of Kantianism despite of its sometimes harsh criticism of Kant and the neo-Kantian movement. In sum we find nine papers in three parts. The first part on ``Geometry, relativity, and convention contains a review of Moritz Schlick's ``Philosophical papers, (pp.\ 17-34), with a postscript on ``General relativity and \textit{General theory of knowledge} (pp.\ 34-43), papers on ``Carnap and Weyl on the foundation of geometry and relativity theory (pp. 44-58), ``Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap (pp. 59-70), and ``Poincaré's conventionalism and the logical positivism (pp. 71-86) [cf. Zbl 0854.01027, Zbl 0949.83501]. Part 2 is devoted to Rudolf Carnap's ``Der logische Aufbau der Welt [Zbl 0916.01025, JFM 54.0060.03]. It contains the two papers ``Carnap's \textit{Aufbau} reconsidered (pp.\ 89-113) and ``Epistemology in the \textit{Aufbau} (pp.\ 114-152), with a postscript on ``Carnap and the Neo-Kantians (pp.\ 152-162). The last part is entitled ``Logico-mathematical truth. It contains the three papers ``Analytic truth in Carnap's \textit{Logical syntax of language} (pp.\ 165-176), ``Carnap and Wittgenstein's \textit{Tractatus} (pp.\ 177-197), and ``Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematics (pp.\ 198-233).
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- Poincaré's conventionalism and the logical positivists
- Moderne Naturphilosophie.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1344489
- New life for Carnap's \textit{Aufbau}?
- Influences on the Aufbau
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1273306
- Interpretations and wrong interpretations of special and general relativity theory by contemporaries of Albert Einstein
- New work for Carnap's quasi-analysis
- Carnap on logic and rationality
- Carnap's 1934 objections to Wittgenstein's say/show distinction
- Friedman on implicit definition: in search of the Hilbertian heritage in philosophy of science
- The Berlin Group and the philosophy of logical empiricism. Partially based on the conference on the Berlin Group, University of Paderborn, Germany, September 3--5, 2009.
- On mathematical realism and applicability of hyperreals
- Influences on the Aufbau
- Logical positivism
- Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: ``German empiricism in the \textit{Aufbau}
- A Bayesian account of the virtue of unification
- Reichenbach's transcendental probability
- The changing faces of the problem of space in the work of Hermann Weyl
- Defending the semantic view: what Itô takes
- Reichenbach on the relative a priori and the context of discovery/justification distinction
- Reichenbach and Weyl on apriority and mathematical applicability
- Relativizing the relativized a priori: Reichenbach's axioms of coordination divided
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- Routes for roots: a mapping shorthand symbolism with reference to Nelson Goodman's hidden \textit{Ars combinatoria}
- Carnap and Neurath in exile: Can their disputes be resolved?
- The forgotten tradition: how the logical empiricists missed the philosophical significance of the work of Riemann, Christoffel and Ricci
- Anti-Foundationalism and the Vienna Circle's Revolution in Philosophy
- Replies to Part III Logical Revisionism
- Continuity in nature and in mathematics: Boltzmann and Poincaré
- Stars and minds. Empirical realism and metaphysical antirealism in liberalized neopositivism
- Heisenberg and the Transformation of Kantian Philosophy
- Quine's \textit{Two dogmas} as a criticism of logical empiricism
- New life for Carnap's \textit{Aufbau}?
- The mathematisation of experience: Predecessor to Carnap's ``Aufbau
- Reichenbach: scientific realist and logical empricist?
- Mathematical Analogies in Physics: The Curious Case of Gauge Symmetries
- Un-conventional wisdom: theory-specificity in Reichenbach's geometric conventionalism
- Federigo Enriques and the philosophical background to the discussion of implicit definitions
- What are implicit definitions?
- Scientific philosophy and the critique of metaphysics from Russell to Carnap to Quine
- Explicating `explication' via conceptual spaces
- How Tarskian are Carnap's Semantics?
- Reichenbach's empirical axiomatization of relativity
- The justification of concepts in Carnap's \textit{Aufbau}
- The Berlin school of logical empiricism and its legacy
- A new analysis of quasianalysis
- Observability, visualizability and the question of metaphysical neutrality
- Conventional principles in science: on the foundations and development of the relativized a priori
- Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincaré's philosophy of science
- Measurement, coordination, and the relativized a priori
- The constitutive a priori and the distinction between mathematical and physical possibility
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