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. It places both movements within scientific philosophy and finds two key points on which they agreed: their revolutionary ambitions and their social engineering sensibility. The essay suggests that the disagreement over emotivism in ethics should be placed within the context of a larger issue on which the movements disagreed: demarcationism and imperialism.
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Richardson, A. W. (2002). Engineering Philosophy of Science: American Pragmatism and Logical Empiricism in the 1930s. Philosophy of Science, 69(S3), S36–S47. https://doi.org/10.1086/341766
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