Artificial language philosophy (also called 'ideal language philosophy') is the position that
philosophical problems are best solved or dissolved through a reform of language. Its …

There are three fundamental components in the methodology of theory reconstruction
associated with what has become known as the structuralist account of empirical theories …

The objective of the present paper is to introduce a new approach to the study of the logical
structure of scientific theories. We shall consider, in broad outline, a basic framework for …

The main objection against various empiricist and—in particular—positivist doctrines in 19th-
and 20th-century philosophy of science has been that they unduly restrict theorizing: as …

This dissertation consists of three parts. Part I is a defense of an artificial language
methodology in philosophy and a historical and systematic defense of the logical empiricists' …

This paper is intended as a critical exposition of Moritz Schlick's early epistemology. The
main text is his General Theory of Knowledge, which was first published in 1918, under the …

The problem of logical relations between rival theories has occupied a pr nent place in the
recent literature of the Philosophy of Science. Already turn of the century, however, it was at …

In this paper an analysis of scientific theories and theory change including meaning change
is presented by using intensional logic. Several cases of scientific progress are …

This paper is concerned with the distinction between factual and conventional (analytic)
truth. The problem is one of the most controversial one's in the methodology of science, and …

It is well known that no language is empirical whose expressions are interpreted by verbal
means alone. This can be shown as follows (cf.[3, Ch. 4]). Let< P be an elementary …