Workshop on the Origins of Logical Empiricism, to be Held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 21-24, 1993

[311296]当代科学哲学及其对科学本质和科学理论的现行观点，是从对逻辑经验主义哲学流派的明确反应中发展出来的，逻辑经验主义哲学流派在第二次世界大战后统治了我们的科学观近四分之一世纪。为了理解我们目前的观点，理解我们所反对的立场是极其重要的。逻辑经验主义产生于英美哲学悠久的经验主义传统，其中包括洛克、休谟、密尔和伯特兰·罗素。但是，由罗素和怀特海在本世纪头十年发展起来的新的数理逻辑，发挥了同样重要的作用。它提供了一种可以表述经验主义主张的语言，提供了对科学假设和方法进行经验主义分析的技术，最重要的是，它提供了一种理性参考的标准。本次研讨会的目的是促进对逻辑经验主义起源的研究，将一些活跃的研究人员聚集在一起，对以前流传的论文进行为期三天的讨论。然后，这组研究人员将产生一个全面而统一的卷，这将有助于在科学哲学和作为20世纪哲学史一部分的更广泛的哲学学科内对这段历史的研究合法化。1891年，为了庆祝逻辑经验主义的两位主要创始人鲁道夫·卡尔纳普和汉斯·赖兴巴赫的诞生，最近举行了一系列会议，促进了人们对逻辑经验主义历史的兴趣。本次研讨会的关注点绝不是继续庆祝活动，而是利用这些庆祝活动产生的兴趣来促进对逻辑经验主义起源的研究，将其作为科学哲学和哲学史的一部分。组织者希望借此鼓励从事这一重要研究的年轻学者。* * *

9311296 Giere Contemporary philosophy of science with its current view of the nature of science and scientific theory developed out of an explicit reaction against the Logical Empiricist school of philosophy that dominated our view of science for nearly a quarter of a century after World War II. To understand our current views, it is extremely important to understand the positions against which we have reacted. Logical Empiricism grew out of the long empiricist tradition in Anglo-American philosophy which includes Locke, Hume, Mill, and Bertrand Russell. But the new mathematical logic, developed by Russell and Whitehead in the first decade of this century, played an equally important role. It provided a language in which empiricist claims could be formulated, techniques for developing empiricist analyses of scientific hypotheses and methods, and, above all, a standard for rational reference. The objective of this workshop is to promote research on the origins of Logical Empiricism by bringing together a number of active researchers for three days of discussion on previously circulated papers. This group of researchers will then produce a comprehensive and unified volume that will help legitimate the study of this history both within the philosophy of science and within the broader discipline of philosophy as part of the history of twentieth century philosophy. Interest in the history of Logical Empiricism has recently been promoted by a number of conferences celebrating the births, in 1891, of the two major founders of Logical Empiricism, Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. The concerns of this workshop is by no means to continue the celebration, but to capitalize on the interest these celebrations generated to promote the study of the origins of Logical Empiricism as part of both the philosophy of science and the history of philosophy. The organizers hope thereby to provide encouragement for younger scholars who have taken up this important study. ** *