The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

Clare Carlisle took exception to my review in the Times Literary Supplement of her biography of Kierkegaard (“Alone for dinner” TLS 4 October 2019). She accused me in a letter to the editor in the ...

Social Theory and Practice is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of theoretical and applied questions in social, political, legal, economic, educational, and moral philosophy, including ...

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...

If you find yourself in a meeting, dinner party, or parent-teacher conference skeptical of someone’s claims because they don’t have the correct “proof”, you might be erroneously subscribing to a ...

THE analysis of mathematics has given rise to important schools of philosophical thought in recent years. Progress has indeed been such that it is now almost impossible to discuss certain fundamental ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.