The first volume of the Library of Living Philosophers (LLP) appeared in 1939, the brainchild of the late Professor Paul A. Schilpp. Schilpp saw that it would help to eliminate confusion and endless sterile disputes over interpretation if great philosophers could be confronted by their capable philosophical peers and asked to reply. As well as a number of critical essays with the chosen philosopher's replies to each essay, each volume would include an intellectual autobiography and an up-to-date bibliography The LLP (...) series has exceeded even Schilpp's expectations, enabling great philosophers to do more than clarify by extending and elaborating their thoughts. A volume in the Library of Living Philosophers is not merely a commentary on a philosopher's work; it is a critical part of that work. (shrink)

ZusammenfassungAn Hand der Betrachtung einiger Hauptzüge in der neueren Entwicklung der Philosophie des logischen Empirismus und nahestehender Richtungen wird dargelegt, wie die Korrektur der zu simplifizierenden Thesen in dem ursprünglichen Programm der Wiener Schule auf eine Auseinandersetzung mit den traditionellen erkenntnistheoretischen Problemen zurückführt. — P.B.RésuméCe travail prend en considération certains développements récents de l'empirisme logique et des points de vues apparentés. Ces développements tendent sinon à un abandon, du moins à une revision de certaines positions par trop simplificatrices, tout d'abord (...) occupées par l'Ecole de Vienne. Or, ce faisant, on se trouve amené à rendre leur sens plein aux questions philosophiques qu'on pensait avoir pu écarter.Newer trends of development in the schools of logical empirism are considered. It is shown how, by the correction of the original too simplifying theses of the Vienna school, one becomes reduced to the study of the traditional problems of the philosophy of science. — P. B. (shrink)