Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein
Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein
In 1959, Peter Achinstein left Harvard and his Logical Positivist-influenced teachers and spent a year working at Oxford during the heyday of ordinary language philosophy. In his writings on evidence and explanation, we find competing influences from both. His explicative methodology and his rigorous approach show the deep influence of Rudolf Carnap and C. G. Hempel, while his historical contextualization and use of pragmatic machinery show his debt to J. L. Austin and Peter Strawson. Achinstein's work in the philosophy of science can be seen as the result of taking the competing views in a debate in the philosophy of language from the generation that preceded him and synthesizing them into something more fruitful.
Keywords: Peter Achinstein, Logical Positivism, Rudolf Carnap, Carl Hempel, pragmatism, scientific evidence
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