ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how four representative Anglophone philosophers interpreted logical empiricism in the early to mid-1930s. These philosophers are L. Susan Stebbing, A. J. Ayer, Charles Morris, and Ernest Nagel. The chapter argues that Stebbing and Ayer took logical empiricists to be practicing a certain philosophical method, the method of analysis. By contrast, Morris and Nagel considered logical empiricism in light of the defense of a viable form of naturalism. This historical reconstruction clarifies the limited and distorted ways that logical empiricism was received in the Anglophone world in the early stages before representatives of the movement themselves joined this discourse.
