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Notes by RBJ on

Reconsidering Logical Positivism

by Michael Friedman

CONTENTS
 Preface page xl
 Introduction

Part One: Geometry, Relativity, and Convention

1 Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers 17
  Postscript: General Relativity and General Theory of Knowledge 34
2 Carnap and Weyl on the Foundations of Geometry
  and Relativity Theory 44
3 Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori:
  Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap
4 Poincare's Conventionalism and the Logical Positivists 71

Part Two: Der logische Aufbau der Welt

5 Carnap's Aufbau Reconsidered 89
6 Epistemology in the Aufran 114
  Postscript: Carnap and the Neo-Kantians 152

Part Three: Logico-Mathematical Truth

7 Analytic Truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language i6~
8 Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus 177
9 Tolerance and Analyticity in Carnap's Philosophy
  of Mathematics 198

 Bibliography 235
 Index 245


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