{"title":"Ernst Mach and early logical empiricism","authors":"Elisabeth Nemeth","doi":"10.4324/9781315650647-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315650647-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211331,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133158975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-24
David J. Stump
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Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-29
J. Sprenger
Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997) was one of the primary exponents of logical empiricism. As a student and member of the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie in Berlin, alongside Reichenbach and Grelling, he witnessed the emergence of logical empiricism as a philosophical program. From the mid-1930s onwards, his contributions shaped its development, too. Hempel studied primarily in Göttingen and Berlin, but in 1929/30, he also spent a semester in Vienna studying with Carnap and participated in the activities of the Vienna Circle. Both societies joined forces for organizing scientific events, and founded the journal Erkenntnis in 1930, where many seminal papers of logical empiricism were published, with Carnap and Reichenbach as editors. While the work of the Berlin philosophers is congenial to the project of the Vienna Circle, there are important differences, too. Neither Hempel nor his mentor Reichenbach identified “scientific philosophy” with the project of cleansing science of meaningless statements (e.g., Carnap 1930). Rather, Hempel extensively used a method that Carnap would apply in later works on probability and confirmation (Carnap 1950, 1952): explication, that is, the replacement of a vague and imprecise pre-theoretical concept (e.g., “confirmation”) by a fruitful and precise concept (e.g., a formal confirmation criterion). Relying on the method of explication, Hempel developed adequacy conditions on a qualitative concept of confirmation (Hempel 1943, 1945a,b), a probabilistic measure of degree of
亨佩尔(Carl Gustav Hempel, 1905-1997)是逻辑经验主义的主要倡导者之一。作为柏林经验哲学协会(Gesellschaft fr empirische philosophy)的学生和成员,他与莱辛巴赫(Reichenbach)和格雷林(greling)一起见证了逻辑经验主义作为一种哲学纲领的出现。从20世纪30年代中期开始,他的贡献也影响了它的发展。亨佩尔主要在Göttingen和柏林学习,但在1929/30年,他也在维也纳与卡尔纳普学习了一个学期,并参加了维也纳圈的活动。这两个学会联合起来组织科学活动,并于1930年创办了《Erkenntnis》杂志,发表了许多关于逻辑经验主义的开创性论文,卡尔纳普和莱辛巴赫担任编辑。虽然柏林哲学家的工作与维也纳学派的计划是一致的,但两者也有重要的区别。亨佩尔和他的导师莱辛巴赫都没有将“科学哲学”等同于清除科学中无意义的陈述(例如,卡尔纳普1930)。相反,亨佩尔广泛使用了卡尔纳普在后来关于概率和确认的著作(卡尔纳普1950,1952)中应用的方法:解释,即用一个富有成果和精确的概念(例如,正式确认标准)取代一个模糊和不精确的理论前概念(例如,“确认”)。依靠解释的方法,Hempel在定性的确认概念上发展了充分性条件(Hempel 1943, 1945a,b),这是程度的概率度量
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Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-46
A. Richardson
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Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-34
M. Neuber
{"title":"Cassirer and the logical empiricists","authors":"M. Neuber","doi":"10.4324/9781315650647-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315650647-34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211331,"journal":{"name":"The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130382282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-38
C. Pincock
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Pub Date : 2021-11-23DOI: 10.4324/9781315650647-45
A. W. Carus
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