Volume 6.8 of The Journal for the History of Analytical
Philosophy (JHAP) has now been published online, with full open-access.
It features an article by Carl-Göran Heidegren entitled “Three Positivist Disputes in the 1960s”. Here is an abstract:
The
West German positivist dispute in the 1960s is well known and
thoroughly studied. At about the same time positivist disputes
also took place in two Scandinavian countries: one in Norway and one in
Sweden. What did the front lines in the debate look like in the three
countries? What was the outcome of the different disputes? The main
focus in the article is on the Swedish case, but
some comparative perspectives relating to the three disputes will also
be presented. The Swedish positivist dispute originated with Gerard
Radnitzky’s doctoral dissertation in theory of science, defended at the
University of Gothenburg in May 1968, Contemporary
Schools of Metascience (2
volumes). The dissertation caused a stir of controversy. It meant a
challenge to the Swedish philsophical establishment because it leaned
heavily on continental philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen
Habermas, who at the time were more or less unknown in Sweden. The
controversy was continuated in the following years, most notably in the
leftist journal Häften
för kritiska studier (Notebooks for Critical Studies).
The volume also contains a review of Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo,
Frege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), written by Rasa Davidaviciute.
JHAP is a free, open-access peer reviewed journal. It is available at
https://jhaponline.org/. Submissions welcome!