Logical Empiricism by Maurice Cornforth
^^^^^ CB: Ralph , thank you much for notifying me of this on your website. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I found it to be very "helpful". I have read Cornforth's "In Defense of Philosophy" where he discusses pragmatism and positivism, analytical philosophy, logical positivism, but this essay is more concise and clear to me. The feeling of the discussion is like Engels surveying historical trends. I'll try to do some annotation of it for the list , I guess. Certainly, for me , the essay will be a heuristic for discussing Russell and logical positivists, etc. Importantly for the "history" of Thaxis debates on these issues ( like Andy A and I debating here this at lennnggggttthhh ), Cornforth makes clear that it is Marxism that analyzed and "announced" the end of metaphysics and system building, long before the followers of Russell, lps etc. Since then, all this philosophizing is post-philosophy philosophy. I always interpreting Wittgenstein's recant or whatever as a sort of recogniction of this,to W's credit. W built one of the most respected modern system's and then was smart enough to recognize that such systems are obsolete, and was courageous enough to say his was out of date or whatever. But Thaxians do have the job of making clear what is formal logic and dialectics, and relating the positive sciences to each other. There is no more philosophy , but there is Thaxis within Praxis. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
