Carnap S Construction Of The World

Author : Alan W. Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521430081

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Carnap's Construction of the World by Alan W. Richardson Pdf

This book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy in general and of logical positivism in particular. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive study of Rudolf Carnap, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy. The focus of the book is Carnap's first major work: Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). It reveals tensions within the context of German epistemology and philosophy of science in the early twentieth century. Alan Richardson argues that Carnap's move to philosophy of science in the 1930s was largely an attempt to dissolve the tension in his early epistemology. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of twentieth-century philosophy. It will be of particular importance to historians of analytic philosophy, philosophers of science, and historians of science.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812695232

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The Logical Structure of the World by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of "methodological solipsism" and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, he asserts that many philosophical problems are meaningless.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136654299

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The Unity of Science by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work, first published in English in 1934, endeavors to work out a way in which the observation statements required for verification are not private to the observer. The work shows the strong influence of Wittgenstein, Russell, and Frege.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Logical Structure of the World by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

Author : Alan Richardson,Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009103015

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Interpreting Carnap by Alan Richardson,Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, helped found logical positivism, was one of the originators of the field of philosophy of science, and was a leading contributor to semantics and inductive logic. This volume of new essays, written by leading international experts, places Carnap in his philosophical context and studies his topics, his interests, and the major stages of his thought. The essays reassess Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science. They delve into important topics of Carnap's mature thought, namely explication, naturalism, and his defence of analyticity; and they recover the logical and the linguistic components of philosophy and how they unfolded in the syntax-semantics relation, induction, and language-planning. The resulting interpretation of Carnap will be illuminating for both current and future research.

Author : W. V. Quine,Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520909828

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Dear Carnap, Dear Van by W. V. Quine,Rudolf Carnap Pdf

Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length—and over a long period of time—on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philosophic discussions. Carnap (1891-1970) was a founder and leader of the logical positivist school. The younger Quine (1908-) began as his staunch admirer but diverged from him increasingly over questions in the analysis of meaning and the justification of belief. That they remained close, relishing their differences through years of correspondence, shows their stature both as thinkers and as friends. The letters are presented here, in full, for the first time. The substantial introduction by Richard Creath offers a lively overview of Carnap's and Quine's careers and backgrounds, allowing the nonspecialist to see their writings in historical and intellectual perspective. Creath also provides a judicious analysis of the philosophical divide between them, showing how deep the issues cut into the discipline, and how to a large extent they remain unresolved.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486143491

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Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

Clear, comprehensive, and rigorous treatment develops the subject from elementary concepts to the construction and analysis of relatively complex logical languages. Hundreds of problems, examples, and exercises. 1958 edition.

Author : Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap,Otto Neurath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0815322631

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Logical Empiricism at Its Peak by Moritz Schlick,Rudolf Carnap,Otto Neurath Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Steve Awodey,Carsten Klein
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812695518

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Carnap Brought Home by Steve Awodey,Carsten Klein Pdf

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was the most important philosopher of the movement known as logical empiricism or logical positivism, still the basis of much modern analytic philosophy. It was long thought that this movement had been destroyed by the polemics of Quine, Popper, and Kuhn. But recently, leading philosophers have been re-appraising this verdict. It is no longer universally agreed that Quine or Popper "won" their disputes with Carnap, and some have now been arguing that Kuhn's ideas are--as Carnap himself thought--perfectly compatible with logical empiricism. This volume presents the latest contributions to this discussion from both sides, and adds a number of new voices, who look at Carnap from a more international point of view -- bringing out, for instance, the roots of his thought in Continental neo-Kantianism and Dilthey's Lebensphilosophie, and stressing his deep commitment to political and cultural change. Carnap grew up in Jena, and in his student days was an active member there of the utopian "Sera Group", part of the German youth movement. At the same time, he was one of Frege's few students, and was deeply influenced by him.

Author : Steve Awodey,Carsten Klein
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 081269550X

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Carnap Brought Home by Steve Awodey,Carsten Klein Pdf

This collection of 16 papers collectively reassess the philosophical contribution of German thinker Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), author of such works as The Logical Structure of the World and The Logical Syntax of Language. Having begun their discussions of Carnap at a meeting in his hometown of Jena, Germany, and international group of academics contributed essays examining Carnap's importance and continuing relevance in the field of logical empiricism. Individual contributions examine such topics as Carnap's treatment of semantics; his conception of explication; continuities and discontinuities in the works of Carnap, Frege, and Quine; a Carnapian reply to Kurt Godel; and Carnap on categorical concepts. An introductory essay explores the evolution of Carnap's thought within the context of his historical milieu in Jena. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : A. W. Carus,Michael Friedman,Wolfgang Kienzler,Alan Richardson,Sven Schlotter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191065262

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Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings by A. W. Carus,Michael Friedman,Wolfgang Kienzler,Alan Richardson,Sven Schlotter Pdf

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is generally acknowledged to have been one of the central figures of twentieth-century philosophy. He was the leading philosopher of the Vienna Circle, a group that was central to the international movement known as logical empiricism, which pursued the goal of making philosophy scientific and eliminating metaphysics that went beyond the limits of what humans can coherently comprehend. Carnap was not only well-versed in this area of thought but also contrary ideas; he interacted philosophically with Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, and in his formative years he was influenced by the positivists Mach and Ostwald, neo-Kantians such as Cassirer and Natorp, and Husserl's phenomenology. Interest in logical empiricism waned in the decades following Carnap's death but was revived towards the end of the twentieth century; the wave of new scholarship that resulted identified Carnap as far more subtle and interesting than was previously understood. The complete fourteen-volume edition of Carnap's published writings builds upon these more recent interpretations of his philosophy. This first book contains Carnap's early publications up until 1928, none of which have previously been translated from their original German. The introduction and notes place the text in the relevant scientific and historical contexts, in addition to explaining obscure references or outdated notation and terminology. Carnap's neo-Kantian origins are more obvious in these works than in his later writings, and the overall figure which emerges from this volume is a very different Carnap to the caricature that many philosophers will know.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226093475

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Meaning and Necessity by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0812691539

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The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

The first volume of the Library of Living Philosophers (LLP) appeared in 1939, the brainchild of the late Professor Paul A. Schilpp. Schilpp saw that it would help to eliminate confusion and endless sterile disputes over interpretation if great philosophers could be confronted by their capable philosophical peers and asked to reply. As well as a number of critical essays with the chosen philosopher's replies to each essay, each volume would include an intellectual autobiography and an up-to-date bibliography The LLP series has exceeded even Schilpp's expectations, enabling great philosophers to do more than clarify by extending and elaborating their thoughts. A volume in the Library of Living Philosophers is not merely a commentary on a philosopher's work; it is a critical part of that work.

Author : Professor Guillermo E Rosado Haddock
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409485544

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The Young Carnap's Unknown Master by Professor Guillermo E Rosado Haddock Pdf

Examining the scholarly interest of the last two decades in the origins of logical empiricism, and especially the roots of Rudolf Carnap’s Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World), Rosado Haddock challenges the received view, according to which that book should be inserted in the empiricist tradition. In The Young Carnap's Unknown Master Rosado Haddock, builds on the interpretations of Aufbau propounded by Verena Mayer and of Carnap's earlier thesis Der Raum propounded by Sahotra Sarkar and offers instead the most detailed and complete argument on behalf of an Husserlian interpretation of both of these early works of Carnap, as well as offering a refutation of the rival Machian, Kantian, Neo-Kantian, and other more eclectic interpretations of the influences on the work of the young Carnap. The book concludes with an assessment of Quine's critique of Carnap's 'analytic-synthetic' distinction and a criticism of the direction that analytic philosophy has taken in following in the footsteps of Quine's views.

Author : Thomas Bonk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402012063

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Language, Truth and Knowledge by Thomas Bonk Pdf

This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this volume will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians.