![]() ![]() ![]() To begin with, its members styled themselves asĬonceptual revolutionaries who cleared the stables of academic While it is in the nature of philosophical movements and their leadingĭoctrines to court controversy, the Vienna Circle and its philosophiesĭid so more than most. ![]() Whose positions retain relevance for contemporary analytical Philosophy of science has unearthed much previously neglected varietyĪnd depth in the doctrines of the Circle’s protagonists, some of Longer represents an active research program, recent history of Or neopositivism: these labels will be used interchangeably here) no While the ViennaĬircle’s early form of logical empiricism (or logical positivism Of science as meta-theory-a “second-order” This, they helped to provide the blueprint for analytical philosophy Within a logical framework so that the important role played byĬonventions, either in the form of definitions or of other analyticalįramework principles, became evident. Presuppositions of scientific theories by regimenting such theories They denied that any principle or claim was syntheticĪ priori. Their radically anti-metaphysical stance was supported by anĮmpiricist criterion of meaningfulness and a broadly logicist conception of Interpretation of then recent advances in the physical and formal Who sought to reconceptualize empiricism by means of their The Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth-century philosophers ![]()
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