Directory of Logical Positivism Resources

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Trend of philosophical thought, also often called "neopositivism" and "logical empiricism," which began in the 1920s with the Vienna Circle. Its key tenet was the verifiability criterion, according to which no statement has any meaning beyond the manner in which it is verified.

Subcategories

• Philosophers
• Vienna Circle

Resources in This Category

• Neopositivism: Linguistic Philosophy and Critical Rationalism

  http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/gedoco2a.html
  A section from Andras Gedo's work Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy.

• PhilosophyPages: Logical Positivism

  http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/6q.htm
  Concise survey of this school and the related doctrine of "ethical emotivism."

• PhilSci Archive: Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism

  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/subjects/logical-positivism-empiricism.html
  Collection of online papers in Microsoft Word format, with abstracts in HTML.

• Wikipedia: Logical Positivism

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism
  Entry from the openly-edited encyclopedia.

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