Human Knowledge
A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2014
288 pages
978-0-8126-9851-0 (ISBN)
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The Finnish philosopher Eino Kaila (1890-1958) wrote a classic statement of Logical Empiricism. He had experienced the foundational debates of the Vienna Circle, invited by Moritz Schlick, during the early summer of 1929. Kaila was a keen follower of the further developments of the Circle. His synoptic presentation and analysis of the basic themes, or "theses", of the movement was based on his lectures as professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
The work appeared as a book in Finnish in 1939. A Swedish translation by Georg Henrik von Wright followed immediately. Earlier, a translation of his philosophical essays from the original German, entitled Reality and Experience, edited by Robert S. Cohen, appeared in 1979. However, this is the first translation of Kaila's major epistemological work.
Kaila's text remains a source for re-evaluations of Logical Empiricism
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A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism
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Persons
Eino Kaila
Anssi Korhonen - Author of Logic as Universal Science: Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context - Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Juha Manninen - Editor of The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism - Springer, 2009
Ilkka Niiniluoto - Author of Truthlikeness - Springer, 1987
George A Reisch - Author of How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic - Cambridge University Press, 2005
Anssi Korhonen - Author of Logic as Universal Science: Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context - Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Juha Manninen - Editor of The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries: Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism - Springer, 2009
Ilkka Niiniluoto - Author of Truthlikeness - Springer, 1987
George A Reisch - Author of How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic - Cambridge University Press, 2005
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Editors' Introduction: Eino Kaila, Logical Empiricist
- Preface by Eino Kaila
- PART I. THEORY FORMATION
- 1. Search for Invariances
- 2. How the Search for Invariances Created Greek Science
- 3. The Aristotelian Conception of Knowledge
- 4. The Galilean Conception of Knowledge
- 5. Induction
- PART II. FORMAL TRUTH OF THEORY
- 6. Logical Truth
- 7. Mathematical Truth
- PART III. EMPIRICAL TRUTH OF THEORY
- 8. The Principle of Testability
- 9. The Logic of Physical Theories
- 10. Logical Behaviorism
- Index
