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Ayer, A.J., ed. Logical Positivism. Free Press; Greenwood Press, 1959. Classic writings by Russell, Carnap, Schlick, Ryle, and others, with complete bibliography. Comte, Auguste. Auguste Comte and Positivism: the Essential Writings. University of Chicago Press, 1983. Ed. by Gertrud Lenzer. Generous selection of writings by the founder of positivism; this edition first published 1965. Gower, B. Logical Positivism in Perspective. London: Croom Helm, 1987. Mainly on Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, but some more general discussion. Hanfling, O. Logical Positivism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1981. A useful introduction. Kraft, Victor. The Vienna Circle: the Origin of Neo-Positivism. Philosophical Library; Greenwood, 1953. History and work of the group that initiated the rebirth of positivism and empiricism, by one of the participants. Quine, W. V. O. From a Logical Point of View. New York and Evanston: Harper Row, Demanding, but contains Two Dogmas of Empiricism, an influential attack on logical positivism. Wright, T. R. The Religion of Humanity: the Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Scholarly study, with good bibliography.
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