Experience and Prediction by Hans Reichenbach PAPERBACK 9780268040550

Experience and PredictionAn Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge\nAuthor(s): Hans Reichenbach, Alan W. Richardson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268040550, 978-0268040550\nSynopsis\nHans Reichenbach [tel] was a formidable figure in early-twentieth-century philosophy of science. Educated in Germany, he was influential in establishing the so-called Berlin Circle, a companion group to the Vienna Circle founded by his colleague Rudolph Carnap. The movement they foundedusually known as \""logical positivism,\"" although it is more precisely known as \""scientific philosophy\"" or \""logical empiricism\""was a form of epistemology that privileged scientific over metaphysical truths. Reichenbach, like other young philosophers of the exact sciences of his generation, was deeply impressed by the far-reaching changes in physics brought about by Einstein's special and general the.