Reconsidering Logical Positivism

Preface Introduction Part I. Geometry, Relativity, and Convention: 1. Moritz Schlick's Philosophical Papers Postscript: general relativity and General Theory of Knowledge 2. Carnap and Weyl on the foundations of geometry and relativity theory 3. Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori: Reichenbach, Schlick and Carnap 4. Poincare's conventionalism and the logical positivists Part II. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt: 5. Carnap's Aufbau reconsidered 6. Epistemology in the Aufbau Postscript: Carnap and the Neo-Kantians Part III. Logico-Mathematical Truth: 7. Analytic truth in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language 8. Carnap and Wittgenstein's Tractatus 9. Tolerance and analyticity in Carnap's philosophy of mathematics Bibliography Index.