Selected Papers on Epistemology and Physics

✍ Scribed by Béla Juhos (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Series: Vienna Circle Collection 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It was as a result of having known Juhos personally over many years that I became familiar with his thought. I met him and Viktor Kraft in Vienna soon after the War and through their acquaintance I first came into contact with the tradition of the Vienna Circle. To their conversation .too lowe much as regards the clarification of my own views, even if in the end these took quite a different turn in many essentials. At this point my gratitude goes first of all to Mrs. Lia J uhos for the gen­ erous help she has given me and the editors of the Vienna Circle collection in selecting the contents of this volume. Next, we owe a special debt to Dr. Paul Foulkes for his splendid translation of the text. Finally, I wish to thank Dr. Veit Pittioni for his constant assistance. As Juhos' last student, he was thoro).lghly familiar with his supervisor's mode of thought and has significantly furthered the assembly and execution of this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Orders of Causality....Pages 1-15
Critical Comments on the Physicalist Theory of Science....Pages 16-35
Empiricism and Physicalism....Pages 36-46
Forms of Negation of Empirical Propositions....Pages 47-59
Principles of Logical Empiricism....Pages 60-81
The Method of Epistemological Analysis....Pages 82-92
Probability Inferences as Syntactic Inferential Forms....Pages 93-104
‘Positive’ and ‘Negative’ Use of Statements....Pages 105-116
The New Form of Empirical Knowledge....Pages 117-133
The Methodological Symmetry of Verification and Falsification....Pages 134-163
Three Sources of Knowledge....Pages 164-175
The Triadic Method....Pages 176-197
The Method of Fictitious Predicates....Pages 198-343
Back Matter....Pages 344-350

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science