Reconsidering Logical Positivism. (Summaries And Comments).(Review)

The Review of Metaphysics | December 1, 2000| | Copyright

FRIEDMAN, Michael. Reconsidering Logical Positivism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xix + 252 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95--In his new book, Friedman tackles the common interpretation of logical positivism that describes the movement as a radically empiricist philosophy. He claims that fully to understand logical positivism we must view it in its historical context. Logical positivism does have roots in empiricism, but it is also descended from Kant. Indeed, the questions that were of central importance to the positivists (for example, how is physical and ...

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