The Vienna Circle : the origin of neo-positivism / Victor Kraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraft, Viktor, 1880-1975, author.

Standardized Title:

Wiener Kreis. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Logical positivism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Philosophical Library, [1953]

Summary:

Join original Vienna Circle member Victor Kraft in his discussion of the movement for an exclusive insider's view of this important point in philosophical history. In this in-depth philosophical study, Victor Kraft explores the role the Vienna Circle had on the international philosophical movement. The Vienna Circle constituted a point of departure for the reawaking, rebirth, and reformation of positivism and empiricism, leading to the creation of the Neo-positivism movement. At the time of The Vienna Circle 's publication in the 1950s, the Neo-positivism movement stood in the foreground of contemporary philosophy, and it was quite possibly the most significant serious philosophical movement in the period between the two world wars. Making Kraft's study of Neo-positivism available to a world audience, Arthur Pap provides a rich and accessible translation from the original German. The book contains detailed expositions, accompanied here and there by criticism, of the Vienna Circle's views on the criteria of significance, the nature of logic and mathematics, the phenomenalist analysis of physical concepts, the verification-basis of scientific propositions, the meaning of probability, physicalism, and much more.

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; INTRODUCTION; PREFACE; Table of Contents; PART ONE - THE HISTORY OF THE VIENNA CIRCLE; PART TWO - THE WORK OF THE VIENNA CIRCLE; Notes; Copyright Page; A. LOGIC AND LANGUAGE; B. EMPIRICISM; I. Logic and Mathematics; II. Logical Analysis of Language; I. THE CONSTITUTION-SYSTEM OF EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS; II. THE VERIFICATION-BASIS OF EMPIRICAL STATEMENTS; III. THE DOMAIN OF THE KNOWABLE

Notes:

Translation of Der Wiener Kreis.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781504022897

1504022890

OCLC:

951972771