![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nowadays, the influence of logical positivism persists especially in the way philosophy is practiced. Until the 1950s, logical positivism was the leading school in the philosophy of science. Moritz SchlickRudolf CarnapHans ReichenbachAlfred Jules Ayerĭuring the 1930s, when Nazism gained power in Germany, the most prominent proponents of logical positivism immigrated to the United States, where they considerably influenced American philosophy. According to logical positivism, there are only two sources of knowledge: logical reasoningandempirical experience.Īmong its members were Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, Rudolf Carnap, the leading exponent of logical positivism, Hans Reichenbach, the founder of the Berlin Circle, Alfred Jules Ayer, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Kurt Grelling, Hans Hahn, Carl Gustav Hempel, Victor Kraft, Otto Neurath, and Friedrich Waismann.Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless. Its main assertion was that only statements that could be verified empirically were genuine. Logical Positivism (also known as logical empiricism, scientific philosophy, and neo-positivism) was a scientifically oriented philosophical movement that arose in the early part of the twentieth century.LOGICAL POSITIVISM Sümeyye Ayar Pelin Yıldırım ![]()
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