What is logical positivism?Positivism:In philosophy, the concept of positivism is generally associated with Enlightenment philosophy, where the primacy of evidence (rather than religious or moral authority) reshaped definitions and pursuits of knowledge. The Latin phrase a posteriori refers to inductive ...
Do the terms "logical positivism" and "logical empiricism" mark a philosophically real and significant distinction? There is, of course, no doubt that the first term designates the group of philosophers known as the Vienna Circle, headed by Moritz Schlick and including Rudolf Carnap, Herbert ...
The reception of Soames’s history of analytic philosophy has been curiously divided. Reviewers whose own work is not primarily in the history of analytic philosophy have generally praised the books, even if raising specific critical points. Respondents whose academic careers have been devoted in some...
Describes a (Gricean) theory of meaning that takes into account speaker intention. (382) To say that a speaker meant something by X is to say that the speaker intended the utterance of X to produce some effect in the audience by means of the recognition of this intention. Evaluates Grice’...
What if the world around you was not an inanimate stage, upon which you, the owner of a soul, played the lead role, but was instead fully awake—just like you? This is called “panpsychism,” or the theory that everything has a mind or a mind-like quality. The concept of ...
For all what I have said or written, I simply want to convince myself to believe, that the world is simple and do not complicate it...But more importantly even if I did complicate it, it is okay to do so...cos there is no right or wrong...
L Young,S Denize - 《Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing》 被引量: 184发表: 1995年 Gergen's Social Constructionism, Logical Positivism and the Continuity of Error: Part 1: Conventionalism. It is the received wisdom that K.J. Gergen's postmodernist metatheory of psychological science --...
Now, we have a sixth extinction, we call it, and this one is primarily initiated, organized, pushed by humans. And it’s the one we not normally call climate change, which a good share of this show, which will have to do with climate change and the whole idea of: is it too late...
From the book Medicine & Philosophy Chapters in this book (17) Frontmatter Table of Contents Foreword 1. Science, Morals, and Philosophy 2. How and Why Does Science Develop? 3. What Is a Scientific Fact? 4. What Does Scientific Argumentation Look Like? 5. Knowing How and Knowing ...
What Is Ceteris Paribus? Ceteris paribus, literally "holding other things constant," is a Latin phrase that is commonly translated into English as "all else being equal." A dominant assumption in mainstreameconomicthinking, it acts as a shorthand indication of the effect of one economic variable...