Essay On Logical Positivism

Introduction This essay seeks to examine the historical and critical perspectives of logical positivism or otherwise sometimes referred to as Logical empiricism in epistemology. Thus, my aim is to: First, provide a detailed discussion on the history of logical positivism; I will not only be tracing its history, but providing a critical perspective of its development, not only in philosophy, but outside of it: this is due to the fact that logical positivism as a theory is applicable mainly in all disciplinary fields, outside philosophy: such as the natural sciences and the social sciences. More importantly, because it’s main advocators do not tend to agree with each other, on overall project of their discourse. Second: I will examine the critical

Accordingly, it is maintained that logical positivism was described as a movement or school that epitomized or typified analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century. Thus, logical empiricist such as Hans- Reichenbach, Rudolf Carnap, Carl G. Hempel and Hebert Fiegel, were known to have influenced the major fields of analytic philosophy; they had been instrumental in creating a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, and it provided an importantly new understanding of the nature of empiricism, and a new rejection of metaphysics. Analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism is known to give it a central place of philosophy. This was due to the importance of logical empiricism in establishing the project of analytic philosophy, as philosophical innovations both within and outside of the analytic tradition in the 1960’s and 1970’s was at pains to distance themselves from each