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Value Judgements, Positivism and Utility Comparisons in Economics
The issue of interpersonal comparisons of utility is about the possibility (or not) of comparing the utility or welfare or the mental states in...
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Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises
In this paper, I argue for the following three theses: (1) Schlick never overcame the problems of “traditional philosophy” and thus tried to find a...
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Fuller’s Clock: A Case for Legal Non-Positivism in Artefactual Theory of Law1
This article covers the traditional problems of the philosophy of law: the controversies between realism and normativism, on the one hand, and...
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The significance of the relation of the logical and the historical in Ilyenkov’s approach to dialectics
This article offers a detailed analysis of Ilyenkov’s conception of the relationship between the logical and the historical. It posits that Ilyenkov,...
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Florovsky’s logical relativism: a philosophical and theological analysis
Georges Florovsky’s essay ‘On the Grounding of Logical Relativism’ has attracted attention from various theologians and students of Russian thought...
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Reichenbach: scientific realist and logical empricist?
Hans Reichenbach’s position in the debate over scientific realism is remarkable. On the one hand, he endorsed the programmatic premises of logical...
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Dialectics Versus Positivism: The Young Gramsci’s Philosophical Background
In the several phases of his analytical and political activity, Gramsci always identified the origin of Italian socialism’s many shortcomings in the...
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Why Czech Positivism Could Not Be Absorbed by Logical Positivism
Although logical positivism is geographically connected to the Czech territory in the period of its birth and early development, it did not leave a...
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That was the Philosophy of Biology that was: Mainx, Woodger, Nagel, and Logical Empiricism, 1929–1961
This article is a systematic critical survey of work done in the philosophy of biology within the logical empiricist tradition, beginning in the...
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Jørgensen’s Dilemma in the Interface Between Legal Positivism and the Natural Law Tradition
The questions about the relation between the fields of logic and that of prescriptive norms represent only one of the aspects of a broader field of...
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Logical empiricism in Turkish exile: Hans Reichenbach’s research and teaching activities at Istanbul University (1933–1938)
In this article, I seek to shed new light on a lesser-known stage of the development of Hans Reichenbach’s thought, namely his research, output and...
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Implying, Precluding, and Quantifying Over: Frege’s Logical Expressivism
There are 16 bivalent binary truth functions, but only two fundamental logical relations between propositions: implying and precluding. In addition,...
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Introduction: The Socio-ethical Concern of Logical Empiricism
In this introduction, various notions of socio-political and ethical engagements are introduced. Some examples from logical empiricism are discussed...
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Review:Johannes Feichtinger/Franz L. Fillafer/Jan Surman (Eds.), The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 367 pp., ISBN: 978-3-319-65761-5
Throughout its history, positivism has been highly controversial. Quite apart from the positivism dispute in twentieth-century German sociology, even...
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Inquiring Value: The Pragmatist Turn in Business Ethics
30 years ago, R. Edward Freeman levied an influential challenge against the “separation thesis”, which maintains that ethical and business concerns...
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Points of convergence between logical empiricism and inductive metaphysics: Hans Reichenbach and Erich Becher in comparison
In this paper, I take a closer look at Hans Reichenbach’s relation to metaphysics and work out some interesting parallels between his account and...
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Grounding-based formulations of legal positivism
The goal of this paper is to provide an accurate grounding-based formulation of positivism in the philosophy of law. I start off by discussing some...
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A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements
This paper is divided into two parts. In the first one I distinguish between weak and strong Anti-Archimedeanisms, the latter being the view that...
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Analytic philosophy in Japan 1933–2000
Although logical positivism had been known before World War II, it was introduced into academic philosophy in Japan only after it. In this process,...