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Logical Positivism: The History of a 'Caricature': The History of a 'Caricature'
| Title: | Logical Positivism: The History of a 'Caricature': The History of a 'Caricature' |
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| Authors: | Verhaegh, Sander |
| Source: | Isis |
| Publisher Information: | University of Chicago Press, 2024. |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Subject Terms: | Logical positivism, Caricature, 4. Education, 16. Peace & justice |
| Description: | Logical positivism is often characterized as a set of naïve doctrines on meaning, method, and metaphysics. In recent decades, however, historians have dismissed this view as a gross misinterpretation. This new scholarship raises a number of questions. When did the standard reading emerge? Why did it become so popular? And how could commentators have been so wrong? This paper reconstructs the history of a ‘caricature’ and rejects the hypothesis that it was developed by ill-informed Anglophone scholars who failed to appreciate the subtleties of European scientific philosophy. I argue that the received view has a more complicated history and was frequently promoted by the European positivists themselves. I show that it has roots in both American and European scientific philosophy and emerged as a result of the complex interplay between the two communities in the years before the intellectual migration. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1545-6994 0021-1753 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/728796 |
| Access URL: | https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/0fbb8bad-c8c3-4a72-a048-29bf1a4f5306 https://doi.org/10.1086/728796 |
| Rights: | taverne |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....b5584820eae6e0937066ea89ba9782c8 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 15456994 00211753 |
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| DOI: | 10.1086/728796 |