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 ...

Bertrand Russell has been traditionallly identified with logical positivism. The author of this paper holds that this identification has no historical basis in Russell's philosophy, and he suggests ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The philosopher A.J. Ayer was asked in the 1970s: "Logical positivism must have had real defects. What do you now, in retrospect, think the main ones were?" Without hesitation, Ayer replied: "Well, I ...