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

9311296 Giere当代科学哲学及其当前对科学本质和科学理论的看法是从对逻辑经验主义哲学学派的明确反应中发展出来的，逻辑经验主义哲学学派在第二次世界大战后的近四分之一个世纪里主导了我们的科学观。 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中的长期经验主义传统，包括洛克、休谟、密尔和罗素。 但是，罗素和怀特海在本世纪的头十年里发展起来的新数理逻辑，发挥了同样重要的作用。 它提供了一种语言，可以用这种语言来阐述生命科学的主张，提供了发展生命科学对科学假说和方法的分析的技术，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通过召集一些活跃的研究人员对以前分发的论文进行为期三天的讨论来促进对逻辑经验主义起源的研究。 这组研究人员将产生一个全面的和统一的卷，这将有助于合法的研究这段历史，无论是在科学哲学和哲学的更广泛的学科作为二十世纪哲学史的一部分。 1891年，逻辑经验主义的两个主要创始人鲁道夫·卡尔纳普和汉斯·赖兴巴赫诞生了。 本次研讨会的关注点决不是继续庆祝活动，而是利用这些庆祝活动所产生的兴趣，促进对逻辑经验主义起源的研究，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项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. ** *