Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014, 17:00 - 19:00 iCal
Michael Beaney:
Susan Stebbing and the early Reception of Logical Empiricism in Britain
NIG, Institut für Philosophie, Hörsaal 2i
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Lecture
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) played a central role in the development of the analytic tradition in the 1930s, publishing the first textbook of analytic philosophy in 1930. She was also responsible for introducing logical empiricism into Britain. She invited Carnap to London in 1935 to give three lectures, which were subsequently published as Philosophy and Logical Syntax, and it was on this occasion that both Russell and Ayer met Carnap for the first time. More importantly, in her writings, she critically compared logical empiricism with Cambridge philosophy, thereby bringing into dialogue the two main schools of philosophy that came to form the analytic tradition. In this talk I offer an account of Stebbing’s work and her role in the development of analytic philosophy.
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Erstellt am Donnerstag, 04. Dezember 2014, 16:22
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