Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... logical positivism was ' consciously anti - clerical ' – attacking the metaphysical basis of the teaching of the Church and the establishment - it had a left - wing and progressive aura . Freddie Ayer stood for Westminster city council ...
... logical positivism was ' consciously anti - clerical ' – attacking the metaphysical basis of the teaching of the Church and the establishment - it had a left - wing and progressive aura . Freddie Ayer stood for Westminster city council ...
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... logical positivism could not explain . His papers were among the most penetrating critiques that logical positivism received before the war.31 He was good enough : the problem was that this kind of philosophy – with its scientistic bias ...
... logical positivism could not explain . His papers were among the most penetrating critiques that logical positivism received before the war.31 He was good enough : the problem was that this kind of philosophy – with its scientistic bias ...
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... logic , or in empirical fields like experimental psychology , was progress of a scientific sort possible . Isaiah actually found Sheffer's condemnation of logical positivism too sweeping , but he came away from the encounter with ...
... logic , or in empirical fields like experimental psychology , was progress of a scientific sort possible . Isaiah actually found Sheffer's condemnation of logical positivism too sweeping , but he came away from the encounter with ...
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