Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as common-sense truths among the general public.

This article reviews the historical emergence and basic tenets of logical positivism, and demonstrates that a number of these positivistic tenets still exert a deeply hidden and deleterious influence ...

Logical positivism, on the other hand, with its tendency to dismiss morality as emotive nonsense can tie its future to operationalism in scientific isolation. Similarly both schools are behavioristic.

Logical positivism was a philosophical movement that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. Its epicenter was Vienna. The British philosopher A.J. Ayer, who visited the logical positivists there, did ...

News Published: 12 February 1944 An Attack on Logical Positivism Nature 153, 191–192 (1944) Cite this article ...

Language became vulnerable to positivism, and Wittgenstein was a perpetrator of both language’s distortion and eventual saving. Born in Vienna in 1889, Wittgenstein was said to be a recluse.

The Philosophy Education Society of America, a 501 (c) (3) charity organization, is the publisher of the Review of Metaphysics. The Society's raison d'etre is to promote definitive contributions to ...