Tag: "logical positivism"

Wittgenstein,Tolstoy and the Folly of Logical Positivism

Stuart Greenstreet explains how analytical philosophy got into a mess.
[Issue 103 :: July/August 2014 :: The Tractatus]

A Sceptic’s Guide To Atheism by Peter S. Williams

Luke Pollard finds nothing new about the New Atheists.
[Issue 74 :: July/August 2009 :: Books]

Jumpers by Tom Stoppard

Warren Allen Smith took at trip to Times Square to see a musical whodunnit about philosophical acrobats debating the existence of God. What else could it be but Jumpers by the profound and playful Tom Stoppard.
[Issue 49 :: January/February 2005 :: Theatre]

A Brief History of… Philosophy of Science

Rick Lewis describes what philosophers have thought about science over the last century and a half.
[Issue 38 :: October/November 2002 :: The Impact of Science]

A.J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers

Ralph Blumenau reviews a new biography of A.J. Ayer, the angry young man who tried to abolish metaphysics.
[Issue 26 :: April/May 2000 :: Books]

Foundations of Analytical Philosophy, Part 3: Descriptivism, Naturalism and Pragmatism

In the last part of this series, Dan Hutto describes the options open to analytical philosophers today.
[Issue 10 :: Autumn 1994 :: Articles]

Foundations of Analytical Philosophy, Part 2: Logical Atomism and Logical Positivism

Daniel Hutto continues to explore the Analytic jungle.
[Issue 9 :: Summer 1994 :: Articles]