Joseph Spradley (1977).
Abstract
This paper provides a summary of logical positivism – empirical verification in terms of sensations, expression of scientific laws using mathematics and hence logic, and correspondence rules between propositions and sensory observations with the goal of producing a non-controversial, literal description of the world. It carefully discusses several problems that ultimately thwarted it. It contrasts logical positivism with the radical subjectivism of Feyerabend and discusses the need for a third approach between foundationalism and relativist anarchy.
Read the Article in .PDF format here:
Recent Parallels Between the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics