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Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge

Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge

Reichenbach, Hans
Richardson, Alan W.

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern ReligionsPhysics

ISBN10: 0268206147
ISBN13: 9780268206147
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Aug 15 2022
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) was a formidable figure in early-twentieth-century philosophy of science. Educated in Germany, he was influential in establishing the so-called Berlin Circle, a companion group to the Vienna Circle founded by his colleague Rudolph Carnap. The movement they founded--usually known as logical positivism, although it is more precisely known as scientific philosophy or logical empiricism--was a form of epistemology that privileged scientific over metaphysical truths. Reichenbach, like other young philosophers of the exact sciences of his generation, was deeply impressed by the far-reaching changes in physics brought about by Einstein's special and general theories of relativity. Reichenbach responded to scientific advances by doing fundamental work in space-time theories, in quantum mechanics, in statistical mechanics, and in the development of probability theory--making him the most important philosopher of physics in the first generation of logical empiricism.

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