Titlebook: Austrian Philosophy Past and Present; Essays in Honor of R Keith Lehrer,Johann Christian Marek Book 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Do

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,Haller and Brentano’s Empiricism,Haller claims that Brentano is an empiricist Brentano is close to Comte’s positivism and to the Vienna circle in emphasizing the methods of natural science as appropriate for philosophy. He also underscores the importance of experience as a starting point of analysis. All this seems convincing.

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Inductive Knowledge,A plea for an inductivist theory of knowledge is presumably not quite in tune with the fashion of the day. Nevertheless, contrary to the currently prevailing opinion that the case for induction is closed and beyond any hope, my claim is that induction is the only hope left if we want to avoid skepticism.

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An Autobiographical Outline,The historical background of my schooldays was the last period of the Austrian Nazi regime and those years when Austria no longer existed after it had become part of the German Reich. I was sent to school in Graz after the war and took my final exams in 1947/48 at a night school.

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The Motion of Geostationary Satellite,omponent of what separates Austrian philosophy from German philosophy. German philosophy tries to build grand (but ultimately substandard) metaphysical edifices; Austrian philosophy tries (without evident success) to demolish them.

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Metaphysics: De-Stroyed or In-De(Con)structible,omponent of what separates Austrian philosophy from German philosophy. German philosophy tries to build grand (but ultimately substandard) metaphysical edifices; Austrian philosophy tries (without evident success) to demolish them.

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Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and Truth,ruth against the type of argument he himself advanced in “Two Dogmas” against Carnap’s notion of analyticity. If he wants to keep his argument, Quine has to discard truth along with analyticity. At the end of the paper I suggest an interpretation of Quine on which he can be seen as having done just that.