The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

This article reviews the historical emergence and basic tenets of logical positivism, and demonstrates that a number of these positivistic tenets still exert a deeply hidden and deleterious influence ...

THE simple solution to philosophical problems, which those philosophers who describe themselves as logical positivists have propounded in the last ten years, are to-day coming under attack. In the ...

If you find yourself in a meeting, dinner party, or parent-teacher conference skeptical of someone’s claims because they don’t have the correct “proof”, you might be erroneously subscribing to a ...

THE analysis of mathematics has given rise to important schools of philosophical thought in recent years. Progress has indeed been such that it is now almost impossible to discuss certain fundamental ...

In 1920, a group of philosophers, scientists and economists gathered in Vienna city of Austria. This new school of thought was famous by the name of Vienna Circle. The philosophy which they developed ...