Contemporary American Philosophy: Personal Statements.

Palmer, George Herbert; Adams, George P.; Montague, Wm. Pepperell

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“…Unlike the situation in Italy, where “neo-idealists just dismissed the question of the philosophical consequences of relativity” because the “idea of an idealist science” would be “a contradiction in terms” (Reeves 1987, 206–8; Sanchez-Ron 2012), several American idealists helped promote the idea that philosophy should become more scientific. And although some opponents of idealism were skeptical about the value of metaphysical speculation, most of them could live with a speculative movement that had “its feet on the ground, however much its head may swim” (Costello 1931, 245). Einstein’s theory, in other words, stimulated philosophers to develop more scientifically informed perspectives.…”

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The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Verhaegh

2023

Philos. sci.

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Historians have shown that philosophical discussions about the implications of relativity significantly shaped the development of European philosophy of science in the 1920s. Yet little is known about American debates from this period. This paper maps the first responses to Einstein’s theory in three U.S. philosophy journals and situates these papers within the local intellectual landscape. We argue that these discussions (1) stimulated the development of a distinctly American branch of philosophy of science and (2) paved the way for the logical empiricists, who emigrated to the United States in the years before World War II.

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The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Verhaegh

2023

Philos. sci.

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Experimenting with Education: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago

Lagemann¹

1996

American Journal of Education

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Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”

Verhaegh

2024

Isis

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Logical positivism is often characterized as a set of naïve doctrines on meaning, method, and metaphysics. In recent decades, however, historians have dismissed this view as a gross misinterpretation. This new scholarship raises a number of questions. When did the standard reading emerge? Why did it become so popular? And how could commentators have been so wrong? This paper reconstructs the history of a 'caricature' and rejects the hypothesis that it was developed by ill-informed Anglophone scholars who failed to appreciate the subtleties of European scientific philosophy. I argue that the received view has a more complicated history and was frequently promoted by the European positivists themselves. I show that it has roots in both American and European scientific philosophy and emerged as a result of the complex interplay between the two communities in the years before the intellectual migration.

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Contemporary American Philosophy: Personal Statements.

Cited by 11 publications

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The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Experimenting with Education: John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young at the University of Chicago

Logical Positivism: The History of a “Caricature”

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