Logical empiricism and naturalism : Neurath and Carnap's metatheory of science / Joseph Bentley.
2023
B828.2
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Title
Logical empiricism and naturalism : Neurath and Carnap's metatheory of science / Joseph Bentley.
Author
Bentley, Joseph, author.
ISBN
9783031293283 (electronic bk.)
3031293282 (electronic bk.)
9783031293276
3031293274
3031293282 (electronic bk.)
9783031293276
3031293274
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-29328-3 doi
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B828.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
146
Summary
This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for the complementarity of their mature philosophies as part of a collaborative metatheory of science. In arguing that both Neurath and Carnap must be interpreted as proponents of epistemological naturalism, and that their naturalisms rest on shared philosophical ground, it is also demonstrated that the boundaries and possibilities for epistemological naturalism are not as restrictive as Quinean orthodoxy has previously suggested. Both building on and challenging the scholarship of the past four decades, this naturalist reading of Carnap also provides a new interpretation of Carnap's conception of analyticity, allowing for a refutation of the Quinean argument for the incompatibility of naturalism and the analytic/synthetic distinction. In doing so, the relevance and potential importance of their scientific meta-theory for contemporary questions in the philosophy of science is demonstrated. This text appeals to students and researchers working on Logical Empiricism, Quine, the history of analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy of science, as well as proponents of naturalized epistemology.
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Vienna Circle Institute library ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Naturalism and the Vienna Circle
2. Neurath's Epistemology of Science
3. Neurath’s Conception of Protocol Statements
4. Carnapian Explication
5. Quine, Carnap, and Analyticity
6. Challenges to the Bipartite Metatheory Interpretation
7. Bipartite Metatheory in Application.
1. Naturalism and the Vienna Circle
2. Neurath's Epistemology of Science
3. Neurath’s Conception of Protocol Statements
4. Carnapian Explication
5. Quine, Carnap, and Analyticity
6. Challenges to the Bipartite Metatheory Interpretation
7. Bipartite Metatheory in Application.