On the Empiricism of Logical Empiricism
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2764-0892.2021.v1.n1.e55724Keywords:
Empiricism, Logical Empiricism, Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto NeurathAbstract
This paper warns against misunderstanding the logical empiricists’ take on the concepts of experience and empiricism. Far from expressing traditionalist way-of-ideas conceptions, these concepts were themselves rethought and refashioned to accord with their overall aim of making contemporary philosophy of science fit for purpose. To this end, this paper disarms the supposed counter-examples of Schlick’s foundationalism and Carnap’s Aufbau and exemplifies the aimed for understanding by examples of the physialist theorising of Carnap and Neurath.
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