The internal-external distinction sheds light on the history of the twentieth-century philosophy of science
pp. 211-223
Abstract
Drawing on the recent revisionary scholarship regarding logical positivism and its relation to the early post-positivism, I display and question the standard historical understanding of the analytical philosophy of science from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s. I then propose an alternative account based on the internal-external distinction. I conclude by showing some advantages of my alternative narrative that does more justice to the logical positivism than the standard understanding and suggest some further lines of research that it opens up.
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Published in:
Arabatzis Theodore, Renn Jürgen, Simões Ana (2015) Relocating the history of science: essays in honor of Kostas Gavroglu. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 211-223
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14553-2_14
Full citation:
Irzik Gürol (2015) „The internal-external distinction sheds light on the history of the twentieth-century philosophy of science“, In: T. Arabatzis, J. Renn & A. Simões (eds.), Relocating the history of science, Dordrecht, Springer, 211–223.