Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist: Materials and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Jaakko Hintikka (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Series: Synthese Library 73
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of SyntheseLibrary since 1965.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-LXVIII
Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist....Pages 1-13
How Carnap Built the World in 1928....Pages 15-53
A Construction of Quality Classes Improved....Pages 55-73
Observation Language and Theoretical....Pages 75-85
Significance and Analyticity: A Comment on Some Recent Proposals of Carnap....Pages 87-94
Quine on Quantifying In: A Dialogue....Pages 95-122
Answers to Questions....Pages 123-141
Grammar and Logic: Some Borderline Problems....Pages 143-159
Knowledge, Belief, and Logical Consequence....Pages 161-181
The Intentions of Intentionality....Pages 183-216
Concept as Vision: On the Problem of Representation in Modern Art and in Modern Philosophy....Pages 217-242
Back Matter....Pages 397-406

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science