PHIL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rudolf Carnap, Logical Positivism, Axiomatic System
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It is a alternative version of empiricism which came from the logic and philosophy of language in the early 20th century. It shows the north of the philosophy of science as a subpart of the study of philosophy. It was developed by multiple philosophers like rudolf carnap in vienna before hitler came to power. This was started to being developed in the 1920"s to late 30"s and started to become popular in philosophy in the us around the 40"s and 50"s. It is the views that all knowledge consists from facts and are derived from sensory experience and organised by reason. It is considered a strong version of empiricism. Originated in the 1830"s by august comte. Logical positivism is called logical since logic is considered the main tool for analysing empirical knowledge. The philosophers arguing for logical positivism were arguing against metaphysics. They decided that the concept of absolute developed by hegel has no empirical contact.
