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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “The women are up to something.” That was the rumour circulating among male Oxford dons as they gathered on May ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...