Philosophy
Philosophy – Bachelor’s Degree 2014
Recommended Year of Study: 4
Recommended Semester: 7
ECTS Credits Allocated: 6.00
Logical empiricism
Status: optional Recommended Year of Study: 4
Recommended Semester: 7
ECTS Credits Allocated: 6.00
Pre-requisites: None
Course objectives: The goal is to introduce students to basic topics of verificationism, which arose under positivism and became influental philosophical doctrine even after the disappearance of logical empiricism from the philosophical scene.
Course description: Verification principle and its defenses: Schlick, Neurath, Carnap, Hempel etc.
Learning Outcomes: Students should be able to take place in realism versus anti-realism debates.
Literature/Reading:
- C. Misak: Verificationsim, Its History and Propspects, London, Routledge, 1995