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Comte, Auguste. ‘A General View <strong>of</strong> Positivism’, at<br />
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/comte/1856/general-view.htm<br />
[statement by the early C19 French coiner <strong>of</strong> the term ‘positivism’]<br />
Feigl and Sellars, RPA<br />
Feigl, H. ‘Logical Empiricism’, in Feigl and Sellars, RPA<br />
Hempel, Carl, ‘Empiricist Criteria <strong>of</strong> Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes’,<br />
repr in Ayer, LP; Martinich, POL [classic, non-technical article on the verifiability principle;<br />
highly recommended]<br />
Hempel, ‘On the Nature <strong>of</strong> Mathematical Truth’, in Feigl and Sellars, RPA;<br />
Benacerraf and Putnam, POM; and at http://www.ditext.com/hempel/math-frame.html<br />
[relatively non-technical]<br />
Jones & Fogelin, ch7<br />
Further Secondary Reading<br />
Ayer, ‘Editor’s Introduction’, in Ayer, LP [very easy read; highly recommended]<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fa, Alberto, The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap: To the Vienna Station<br />
[scholarly work on the early days <strong>of</strong> logical positivism construed as a reaction to Kantian<br />
views about science and mathematics; by “semantic” C<strong>of</strong>fa means roughly ‘linguistic’]<br />
Freidman, Michael, ‘Logical Positivism’, REP<br />
Friedman, Michael, Reconsidering Logical Positivism [superb collection <strong>of</strong><br />
separately readable and incredibly clear essays by the pre-eminent scholar <strong>of</strong> logical<br />
positivism; some essays assume some familiarity with issues in the foundations <strong>of</strong> logic<br />
and mathematics; highly recommended]<br />
Hahn, Lewis Edwin (ed.) Philosophy <strong>of</strong> A.J. Ayer (Library <strong>of</strong> Living Philosophers)<br />
Richardson, Alan and Thomas Uebel (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Logical<br />
Empiricism,<br />
available on the Cambridge Companions Complete Collections website, accessible<br />
through the library’s electronic resources under ‘electronic books’<br />
Schwartz, chs. 2-3<br />
Soames, v1, chs.12-13 [clear, thorough and rigorous; focuses on Ayer]<br />
Uebel, Thomas. ‘Vienna Circle’, at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vienna-circle/<br />
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