Reconsidering logical positivism / Michael Friedman.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

xix, 252 pages ; 24 cm

pt. 1. Geometry, relativity, and convention. Moritz Schlick's Philosophical papers. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory. Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap. Poincaré's conventionalism and the logical positivists -- pt. 2. Der logische Aufbau der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau reconsidered. Epistemology in the Aufbau -- pt. 3. Logico-mathematical truth. Analytic truth in Carnap's Logical syntax of language. Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-244) and index.