Logical Positivism: An American History

Logical Positivism: An American History tells the remarkable story of a group of European philosophers and scientists who fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Drawing on extensive archival materials, it traces the conflicted reception of their ideas—at once hailed as a model of scientific clarity and yet condemned as a sterile and reductive approach to philosophy.

Rather than treating logical positivism as a purely European export, this book argues that it was a product of transat...