It was essentially Werner Leinfellner's accomplishment that the ideal of logical empiricism in the 1930s and 1940s, to create a " unified science ", was replaced by that of a " methodological unity of science ".
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Anyone familiar with philosophy of science knows until the 1960s, logical empiricism dominated the discipline and took as its paradigmatic science fundamental physics what they identified as the fundamental science which by then was predominantly instrumentalist.
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In support of Forman, Max Jammer and others cite anti-rationalist movements such as existentialism, pragmatism, and logical empiricism as showing a post-war cultural climate that was receptive to the kinds of argument advanced by Bohr, Dirac and others.
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In 1930 the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Society took over the journal " Annalen der Philosophie " and made it the main journal of Logical Empiricism under the title " Erkenntnis ", ed . by Carnap and Reichenbach.
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Such was the " received view " of scientific explanation from the point of view of logical empiricism, that Salmon says " held sway " during the third quarter of the last century ( Salmon, p . 10 ).
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This change of direction, and the somewhat differing beliefs of Reichenbach and others, led to a consensus that the English name for the shared doctrinal platform, in its American exile from the late 1930s, should be " logical empiricism ."
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Although the historical significance of " Tractatus " is for its influence on the philosophers of logical empiricism, by providing them with a framework for a philosophy of science, and hence engineering, Wittgenstein actually wrote it as a work on ethics.
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In a 1931 paper with Albert Blumberg, " Logical Positivism : A New European Movement, " he argued for logical positivism to be renamed " logical empiricism " based upon certain realist differences between contemporary philosophy of science and the older positivist movement.
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Carl G . Hempel was born in Oranienburg, Germany, and studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the Universities of Goettingen, Heidelberg, Vienna and Berlin, where he received a doctorate in 1934 for work on probability under Hans Reichenbach, a founder of the philosophy of logical empiricism.
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The unity of science movement for the construction of an " International Encyclopedia of Unified Science ", promoted mainly by Neurath, Carnap, and Morris, is symptomatic of the internationalization of Logical Empiricism, organizing numerous international conferences and the publication of the " International Encyclopedia of Unified Science ".
