The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

Clare Carlisle took exception to my review in the Times Literary Supplement of her biography of Kierkegaard (“Alone for dinner” TLS 4 October 2019). She accused me in a letter to the editor in the ...

John Yoo responds to an article by UC Berkeley’s Steve Hayward on his substack Political Questions. Readers of Political Questions may know that Steve and I have been in Italy, where we participated ...

Social Theory and Practice is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of theoretical and applied questions in social, political, legal, economic, educational, and moral philosophy, including ...

Among various theories applicable for law-making, the ideas of naturalism and positivism are often referred to. The concept of natural law is probably as ancient as 2500-year-old. According to the ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.