The Limits of Logical Empiricism: Selected Papers of Arthur Pap

by Arthur Pap

Book Overview

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap's views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension in logical empiricism at its very best in the work of Carnap. But Pap's critique of Carnap is quite different from Quine's, and represents the discovery of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048170990
• ISBN13: 9789048170999
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"