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 ...

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 ...

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 – Verification (A. J. Ayer) – religious ethical language as meaningless; there can be no way in which we could verify the truth or falsehood of the propositions (e.g. God is good, ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

A.J. Ayer (pictured, left) was one of the English-speaking world's best-known philosophers in the 20th century. He held the Wykeham Chair in Logic at Oxford, widely seen as the country's top ...

In 1920, a group of philosophers, scientists and economists gathered in Vienna city of Austria. This new school of thought was famous by the name of Vienna Circle. The philosophy which they developed ...