The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap

The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap
Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9780812691535

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.

The Logical Structure of the World

The Logical Structure of the World
Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780812695236

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.

Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought

Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought
Author: A. W. Carus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139467867

Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he was a founder of the philosophical movement known as Logical Empiricism. He was strongly influenced by a number of different philosophical traditions (including the legacies of both Kant and Husserl), and also by the German Youth Movement, the First World War (in which he was wounded and decorated), and radical socialism. This book places his central ideas in a broad cultural, political and intellectual context, showing how he synthesised many different currents of thought to achieve a philosophical perspective that remains strikingly relevant in the twenty-first century. Its rich account of a philosopher's response to his times will appeal to all who are interested in the development of philosophy in the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Carnap

The Cambridge Companion to Carnap
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521840155

This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.

Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
Author: R CREATH
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 940073929X

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​

Carnap Brought Home

Carnap Brought Home
Author: Steve Awodey
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780812695519

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.

Logical Syntax of Language

Logical Syntax of Language
Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317830601

This is IV volume of eight in a series on Philosophy of the Mind and Language. For nearly a century mathematicians and logicians have been striving hard to make logic an exact science. But a book on logic must contain, in addition to the formulae, an expository context which, with the assistance of the words of ordinary language, explains the formulae and the relations between them; and this context often leaves much to be desired in the matter of clarity and exactitude. Originally published in 1937, the purpose of the present work is to give a systematic exposition of such a method, namely, of the method of " logical syntax".

Meaning and Necessity

Meaning and Necessity
Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1988-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226093476

"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