sábado, 12 de maio de 2012

O Empiricismo Lógico está morto?

Não é o que se vê por aí. Largamente os que trabalham em ciência ainda são aderentes.

E os filósofos?

Bem, isto é o que diz a Stanford Enciclopédia of Philosophy:

Even in its heyday many philosophers who on either doctrinal or sociological grounds can be grouped with the logical empiricists did not see themselves that way. We should not expect philosophers today to identify with the movement either. Each generation finds its place by emphasizing its differences from what has gone before. But the spirit of the movement still has its adherents. There are many who value clarity and who want to understand the methodology of science, its structure, and its prospects. There are many who want to find a natural home within a broad conception of science for conceptual innovation, for logic and mathematics, and for their own study of methodology. And importantly there are those who see in science a prospect for intellectual and social reform and who see in their own study of science some hope for freeing us all from the merely habitual ways of thinking “by which we are now possessed” (Kuhn 1962, 1). These are the motives that define the movement called logical empiricism. As Twain might have said, the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#Imp

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