Logical Positivism and Education

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Logical Positivism is logical knowledge which is based on direct experience. It is also known as scientific empiricism. Bertrand Russell, Hume, C. W. Morris, Carnap,Whitehead, Wittgenstein were the prominent scientist / philosophers who propagated this philosophy.
Main thought of the Philosophy
Carnep is of the view that philosophical thoughts should be analysed logically by using scientific methods. Wittgenstein gave the idea that world is an essence of fact not an essence of any object. He criticized science by saying that science is not an organized form of names but an organized form of sentences. However, the main purpose of above philosophers was to prove the futility of metaphysics. They tried to give a scientific base to philosophy rejecting metaphysics. Thus the basic purpose of logical positivism is to prove metaphysics as meaningless.
According to logical positivism there are two ways of knowing:
1.      Knowing by experience
2.      Knowing by intelligence
Logical Positivism has adopted a course which is called the measure of reliability.
View Points of Modern Logical Positivism:
1.      Language is a medium and way of expressing behaviour.
2.      There can be no common form or essence of all languages.
3.      There are no definite atomic and simple elements of reality equivalent to words and early assumptions.
4.      The function of philosophy is not to propound a principle but to remove doubts and dissatisfaction created by mind.
Educational Implications of the Philosophy:
1.      Empirical viewpoints of the philosophy are helpful in testing scientific principles on logical ground.
2.      This philosophy does not verify absolute values. Only relative values are significant after verification.
3.      The aim of education is to develop reasoning and intellectual power of children and to help them verify every bits of knowledge.
4.      It emphasizes on objective knowledge and ignores subjectivity.
5.      Scientific and logical attitude must be developed in children through education.
6.      This philosophy emphasizes on the analysis of language and denies all traditional philosophical ideas.

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