272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers.... Read more
Chapter 1 Founders; Chapter 2 The Logical Positivists and the Verifiability Principle; Chapter 3 Peirce and the Pragmatic Maxim; Chapter 4 What is it to Understand a Sentence?; Chapter 5 Some Further Suggestions;
Biography
C. J.Misak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto; she is the author of Truth and the End of Inquiry.
'The book is valuable for its clear and informative survey of the variety of verificationist options ... an extremely helpful guide to an important theme in modern philosophy'. - MIND
