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LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic
philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is
logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifi-
cally and technically informed philosophy of science,
established mathematical logic as a topic in and a tool for
philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics.
Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of
the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central
place in the project. The second wave of interpretative
accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should
progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism.
Since the 1980s, a new literature has arisen that examines
logical empiricism in its historical, scientific, and philo-
sophical contexts, in the belief that its philosophical sig-
nificance has not been adequately judged, to the detriment
of contemporary philosophy. panion provides
informative overviews and further advances this recon-
structive project. The essays survey the formative stages of
logical empiricism in Central Europe and its acculturation
in North America; discuss its main topics, achievements,
and failures in different areas of philosophy of science; and
assess its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.
Alan Richardson is professor of philosophy at the University
of British Columbia.
Thomas Uebel is professor of philosophy at the University
of Manchester.
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