Metaphysics through the Neopositivistic Filter

• Authors: Elżbieta Pietruska-Madej

Title variants

PL

Metafizyka w filtrze neopozytywizmu. Śladem kontrowersji: Karl Popper - Koło Wiedeńskie

EN

Metaphysics through the Neopositivistic Filter

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

In Polish philosophical literature, especially didactic, a stereotype of Popper as a neopositivist is suprisingly stubborn. This stereotype does not help in understanding the relation between Popper and Vienna Circle, and the evolution of Popper's own views. Antimetaphysical bias of the neopositivists stands in evident contradiction to Popper's approach, who based his conceptual system on metaphysical ideas. In the article I qrgue that „late” Popper did not conctradict himself from the Vienna period. I show that „Logik der Forschung” is usually read through the neopositivistic filter, and that is why Popper's statements are so often misinterpreted.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 1996
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 95-104

Dates

published

1996-06-01

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Pietruska-Madej