THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM

<p>Logical empiricism is a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 30s in Central Europe and in the 1940s and 50s in the United States. With its stated ambition to comprehend the revolutionary advances in the empirical and formal sciences of their day and to confront anti-modernist challenges to scientific reason itself, logical empiricism was never uncontroversial. Uniting key thinkers who often disagreed with one another but shared the aim to conceive of philosophy as part of the scientific enterprise, it left a rich and varied legacy that has only begun to be explored relatively recently. </p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism is an outstanding reference source to this challenging subject area, and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 41 chapters written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the<i> Handbook</i> is organized into four clear parts:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The Cultural, Scientific and Philosophical Context and the Development of Logical Empiricism</li> <li>Characteristic Theses of and Specific Issues in Logical Empiricism</li> <li>Relations to Philosophical Contemporaries</li> <li>Leading Post-Positivist Criticisms and Legacy</li> </ul><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of twentieth-century philosophy, especially the history of analytical philosophy and the history of philosophy of science, the <i>Handbook</i> will also be of interest to those working in related areas of philosophy influenced by this important movement, including metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.</p> <p>Introduction <i>Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau and Thomas Uebel </i><b>Part 1: The Cultural, Scientific and Philosophical Context and the Development of Logical Empiricism </b>1. The Foundational Crisis of Modern Physics and its Cultural Significance <i>Michael Stöltzner </i>2. The German Youth Movement at the Start of the 20th Century and Logical Empiricism <i>Hans-Joachim Dahms </i>3. Dilthey, Historicism and Logical Empiricism <i>Christian Damböck </i>4. Varieties of Neo-Kantian Influences <i>Matthias Neuber </i>5. Hermann von Helmholtz and Logical Empiricism <i>Michael Heidelberger </i>6. Ernst Mach and Early Logical Empiricism <i>Elisabeth Nemeth </i>7. Bolzano and Brentano, and Logical Empiricism <i>Mark Textor </i>8. French Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle <i>Anastasios Brenner </i>9. Einstein and Logical Empiricism <i>Fynn Ole Engler </i>10. The First Vienna Circle and the Erlangen Conference <i>Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau </i>11. The Vienna Circle and the Ernst Mach <i>Friedrich Stadler </i>12. The Berlin Group and the Society for Scientific Philosophy <i>Nikolay Milkov </i>13. Women in Logical Empiricism <i>Frederique Janssen-Lauret </i><b>Part 2: Characteristic Theses of and Specific Issues in Logical Empiricism </b>14. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics in Early Logical Empiricism <i>Erich H. Reck </i>15. Conceptions of Truth in Early Logical Empiricism <i>Pierre Wagner </i>16. Verificationism <i>James Justus </i>17. Noncognitivism <i>Anne Siegetsleitner </i>18. The Unity of Science <i>Jordi Cat </i>19. The Deductive-Nomological Model of Explanation <i>Stathis Psillos </i>20. The Partial Interpretation of Scientific Theories <i>William Demopoulos </i>21. The Relative A Priori <i>David J. Stump </i>22. Nonstandard Logicism <i>Georg Schiemer </i>23. Probability in Logical Empiricism <i>Marta Sznajder </i>24. Reichenbach and the Problem of Induction <i>Flavia Padovani </i>25. Schlick, Carnap and Feigl on the Mind-Body Problem <i>Sean Crawford </i>26. Hempel and Confirmation Theory <i>Jan Sprenger </i><i> </i>27. Carnap and Ontology <i>Gregory Lavers </i>28. Neurath on Political Economy <i>John O’Neill </i><b>Part 3: Relations to Philosophical Contemporaries </b>29. The Vienna Circle’s Relationship with Wittgenstein <i>Johannes Friedl </i>30. Cassirer and the Logical Empiricists <i>Matthias Neuber </i>31. Critical Rationalism, the Vienna Circle and the Empirical Basis Problem <i>Artur Koterski </i>32. The Lvov-Warsaw School and Logical Empiricism <i>Jan Wolenski </i>33. Logical Empiricism in Northern Europe <i>Ilkka Niiniluoto </i>34. Logical Empiricism in the Anglophone World: Early Receptions <i>Christopher Pincock </i>35. Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism <i>Massimo Ferrari </i><b>Part 4: Leading Post-Positivist Criticisms and Legacy </b>36. Quine and Post-Positivism <i>Richard Creath </i>37. Kuhn, Carnap and Logical Empiricism <i>Gürol Irzik </i>38. The Bipartite Metatheory Conception of Philosophy <i>Thomas Uebel </i>39. Logical Empiricism and Formal Epistemology <i>Sahotra Sarkar </i>40. Carnap’s Conception of Reason <i>A. W. Carus </i>41. Rethinking the Legacy of Logical Empiricism in North America <i>Alan Richardson. Index</i></p>