PHIL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Logical Positivism, Verificationism, German Idealism
15 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Recall lp: negative (critical) part of lp: Included rejecting german idealism and all speculative philosophy (metaphysics, religion, etc. ) because they lacked literal meaning (can"t be true or false). Was done with the philosophy of language (analytic/synthetic distinction and. Promotes an empiricist view of knowledge on which science is supreme and philosophy"s only role is to clarify the logic of justification in science. Was done with the philosophy of science (scientific justification only involves. Observation & logic: lp did not succeed in showing that dangerous metaphysical claims are letrally meaningless, and that only analytic and scientific types of claims are literally meaningful. Notice: all these problems are problems just for the critical (negative/philosophy of language) part of lp. Problem 1: verification criterion implies incorrect results when classifying statements: Too weak/inclusive: allows some statements that are actually meaningless to count as meaningful. Too strong/exclusive: implies that other statements that are actually meaningful are instead meaningless.
