Language, Truth and Logic (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Language, Truth and Logic Thursday, August 6 2009.

• Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical analysis, the a priori, truth and probability, critique of ethics and theology, self and the common world, more. "A delightful book...I should like to have written it myself."—Bertrand Russell.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Language, Truth and Logic Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Alfred Jules Ayer: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Language, Truth and Logic Friday, July 17 2009.

• The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.