ABSTRACT
Logic has a long academic tradition in the Nordic countries as a subfield of theoretical philosophy, but the study of the philosophy of science in the modern sense was started in the 1920s by Eino Kaila in Finland and Jørgen Jørgensen in Denmark and in the 1930s by Åke Petzäll in Sweden and Arne Naess in Norway. Logical empiricism made a decisive impact in Northern Europe with these pioneering authors, whose work has been continued in the style of analytic philosophy by their colleagues and students across several generations. This chapter traces the first encounters with logical empiricism as well as the developments of common topics in logical empiricism and the analytic philosophy in Nordic countries from the 1920s to the 1970s.
