Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap
Carnap in 1922
Born(1891-05-18)18 May 1891
Died14 September 1970(1970-09-14) (aged 79)
Education
EducationUniversity of Jena (B.A., 1914; Ph.D., 1921)
University of Freiburg (audit student, 1911–12)[1]
University of Berlin (graduate research, 1917–18)[2]
University of Vienna (Dr. phil. hab., 1926)
Theses
  • Der Raum: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre (Space: A Contribution to the Theory of Science) (1921)
  • Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) (1926)
Doctoral advisorBruno Bauch (Ph.D. advisor)[2]
Moritz Schlick (Dr. phil. hab.)[2]
Other advisorsGottlob Frege
Heinrich Rickert[1]
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Nominalism[3]
Vienna Circle
Logical positivism
Logical atomism[4]
Logical behaviorism[5]
Formalism in the philosophy of mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
German University in Prague
University of Chicago
Institute for Advanced Study
UCLA
Doctoral studentsAbner Shimony
David Kaplan
Notable studentsCarl Gustav Hempel
Peter G. Ossorio
Herbert A. Simon
Raymond Smullyan
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Main interestsLogic · Epistemology
Philosophy of science
Semantics
Notable ideas

Rudolf Carnap (/ˈkɑːrnæp/;[20] German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism.

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference SEP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, Sven Schlotter (eds.), Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings: The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xiii–xiv.
  3. ^ "Review of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals" – ndpr.nd.edu
  4. ^ Carnap, R. (1934), "On the Character of Philosophic Problems (Über den Charakter der philosophischen Probleme)," translation by W. M. Malisoff, Philosophy of Science, 1, pp. 5–19.
  5. ^ a b Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Behaviorism". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  6. ^ Physicalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  7. ^ Arthur Sullivan, The Constitutive A Priori: Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework, Lexington Books, 2018, p. 106.
  8. ^ Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1937, pp. 13–14.
  9. ^ A. W. Carus, Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 222.
  10. ^ A. W. Carus, Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 223 and 227.
  11. ^ Thomas Uebel, Empiricism at the Crossroads: The Vienna Circle's Protocol-Sentence Debate Revisited, Open Court, 2015, p. 142.
  12. ^ Steve Awodey pronounces Carnap's Gabelbarkeitssatz-related pursuits "ill-fated" (Steve Awodey, "Structuralism, Invariance, and Univalence" (March 4, 2014)).
  13. ^ "Structural Realism": entry by James Ladyman in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  14. ^ a b c Carnap, Rudolf – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  15. ^ Rudolf Carnap, "Überwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache", Erkenntnis II (1932): 219–241.
  16. ^ Dutilh Novaes, Catarina; Reck, Erich (2017). "Carnapian explication, formalisms as cognitive tools, and the paradox of adequate formalization". Synthese. 194: 195–215. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0816-z.
  17. ^ Richardson, Alan; Isaacson, Dan (1994). "Carnap's Principle of Tolerance". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes. 68: 67–83. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/68.1.67. JSTOR 4107023.
  18. ^ Rudolf Carnap (1966), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Basic Books, p. 220.
  19. ^ C. James Goodwin (2009). Research In Psychology: Methods and Design (6th ed.). Wiley. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-470-52278-3.
  20. ^ "Carnap". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.

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