About the Book: Logical Positivism Revisited
The book Logical Positivism Revisited is an attempt to expound and critically
examine the cardinal doctrines of logical positivism. The logical rigour with
which the followers of this school of thought analysed the issues concerning
language, knowledge and truth shows that the problems of philosophy can only be
solved by resorting to logical analysis. The view that problems of philosophy
surface because of our misunderstanding or loose correlation of our language has
provided a new dimension to our philosophical thinking. Moreover, logical
positivisms anti-metaphysical stance highlights its taste for logic, mathematics
and science and its distaste for speculative thinking in philosophy. Such