Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

✍ Scribed by Michael Friedman (auth.), Richard Creath (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 16
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine....Pages 1-11
Carnap’s Untersuchungen : Logicism, Formal Axiomatics, and Metatheory....Pages 13-36
Realism as a Problem of Language – From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila....Pages 37-56
Analyticity in the Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Really Necessary?....Pages 57-66
Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: “German” Empiricism in the Aufbau ....Pages 67-88
Carnap’s Encounter with Pragmatism....Pages 89-111
Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond....Pages 113-132
Carnap, Philosophy and “Politics in its Broadest Sense”....Pages 133-148
A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933....Pages 149-167
Emergence – still trendy after all these years....Pages 169-180
Back Matter....Pages 181-203

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; History of Philosophy; Logic; Pragmatism