PHIL 341 Study Guide - Final Guide: Karl Popper, Bertrand Russell, Logical Positivism
23 Feb 2016
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Positivism: name given to quasi-movement among 19th century philosophers and philosophically minded scientists. Emphasis: what can be empirically observed, opposition to metaphysical speculation and a priori intuition". Einstein, tries to bury alternate approaches to positivism as opposed to kant. Empiricism and analytic philosophy trivial a priori information) Logical empiricism serious problem: how to deal with logic and mathematics (positivist want to get rid of mathematics is significant but not analytic. Mill"s empiricism competed with kantian and hegelian idealism for dominance in turn of the 20th century - bertrand russell and g. e. Moore turned away from idealism wanted roughly the positivism idea but also realism. On denoting 1905 - inaugurates analytic philosophy (russell applies mathematical logic philosophical world. Wittgenstein writes a book that solves all philosophical problems" by means of a logical- to philosophy) Logical positivism/empiricism very active and influential through 20s and 30s dispersed with the rise of nazis in germany linguistic analysis.
