The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

If you find yourself in a meeting, dinner party, or parent-teacher conference skeptical of someone’s claims because they don’t have the correct “proof”, you might be erroneously subscribing to a ...

THE simple solution to philosophical problems, which those philosophers who describe themselves as logical positivists have propounded in the last ten years, are to-day coming under attack. In the ...

Ideas are a little submerged by biography – and soft furnishings – in this account of how Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot sought to refute logical positivism in ...

The year 1959 was one of philosophic celebrations. Many volumes, monographs, and papers marked the centennial of John Dewey. France, rather more than the United States, similarly celebrated Henri ...

Logical positivism was a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. Its epicenter was Vienna. The British philosopher A.J. Ayer, who visited the logical positivists there, did much ...

I was fascinated by your article on the finding that animals are able to indicate they do not know something (Animals 'can think about thought', December 3). "Metacognition" is a slightly complex ...