- New
-
Topics
- All Categories
- Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Value Theory
- Science, Logic, and Mathematics
- Science, Logic, and Mathematics
- Logic and Philosophy of Logic
- Philosophy of Biology
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Computing and Information
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Physical Science
- Philosophy of Social Science
- Philosophy of Probability
- General Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Science, Misc
- History of Western Philosophy
- Philosophical Traditions
- Philosophy, Misc
- Other Academic Areas
- Journals
- Submit material
- More
Rudolf Carnap
Edited by Thomas Mormann
About this topic
| Summary | Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was a German-American philosopher mainly working in logic and philosophy of science. He began his philosophical career as a neo-Kantian, and later became a leading figure of the logical empiricism of the Vienna Circle. Since that time, he considered it as one of the main tasks of philosophy to “overcome metaphysics” – not simply as an internal philosophical issue, but also as a contribution of philosophy to the project of enlightenment and the fight against politically and morally pernicious ideologies. After his emigration to the United States (1935) he became one of the best-known representatives of philosophy of science and analytic philosophy. According to Carnap, the task of philosophy was to construct linguistic and ontological frameworks that could be used in the ongoing progress of scientific knowledge. In the last decades of his life he dedicated a great part of his work in the elaboration of inductive logic. |
| Key works | Two classical works of Carnap are Carnap 1928 (translated into English as Carnap 1967) and Carnap 1937. Two excellent collections of papers on all aspects of Carnap's philosophy are Creath & Friedman 2007 and Richardson & Uebel 2007. The Schilpp volume Schilpp 1963 dedicated to Carnap is still worth reading. Klein & Awodey 2004 and Friedman 2002 offer useful information on the European context of Carnap's philosophy. |
| Introductions | Many introductory works on specific Carnapian themes may be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. There are surprisingly few introductory works that deal with Carnap's philosophy in general. An internet source is Murzi 2001, for a book-length general introduction into Carnap's philosophy see Mormann 2000. |
Show all references
Related
Subcategories
Carnap: Epistemology (70)
Carnap: Ontology (61)
Carnap: Philosophy of Science (265 | 123)
Carnap: Works (240 | 97)
Carnap, Misc (81)
Contents
1457 found
Order:
| 1 — 50 / 1457 |
Material to categorize
- Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology.Rudolf Carnap - 1952 - In Semantics and the Philosophy of Language. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 208-228.
- Toward a new foundationalism: from Carnap to Kripke, and from Husserl to Sallis.Bernard Freydberg - 2021 - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.This book addresses the breach within contemporary philosophy with a newly conceived foundationalism. It shows that dramatic discord has arisen between its two dominant branches. The Anglo-American branch generally takes its departure from logic and from natural science, while the Continental branch generally takes its departure from art and from the great traditional questions. However, they share this common negative feature: each side denies the view that philosophy issues from a central foundation. The book gives brief distillations of six major (...)
- Tagebücher.Rudolf Carnap - 2021 - Hamburg: Meiner. Edited by Christian Damböck, Brigitta Arden, Roman Jordan, Brigitte Parakenings & Lois M. Rendl.Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) war einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der europäischen Philosophie der Zwischenkriegszeit wie auch der amerikanischen analytischen Philosophie der Nachkriegszeit. Seine frühen Tagebücher, mit deren Edition die Ausgabe seiner Schriften aus dem Nachlass eröffnet wird, bieten einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Motive und Gedanken einer Schlüsselfigur der Philosophie des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts und liefern unerlässliche Informationen zu Entstehung und Hintergrund von Carnaps Werk, aber auch zur (Vor-)Geschichte des Wiener Kreises und des Logischen Empirismus.
- Sinnvolle Theologie bei Rudolf Carnap.Niko Strobach - 2023 - In Martin Lemke, Konstantin Leschke, Friederike Peters & Matthias Wunsch (eds.), Der Wiener Kreis und sein philosophisches Spektrum: Beiträge zur Kulturphilosophie, Metaphysik, Philosophiegeschichte, Praktischen Philosophie und Ästhetik. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 107-126.In diesem Beitrag soll gezeigt werden, dass, inwiefern und wieso Rudolf Carnap die Möglichkeit sinnvoller Theologie anerkannt hat. Die These ist, kurz gesagt: Es gibt nach Carnap sinnvolle Theologie. Es lohnt sich, das zu zeigen, da oberflächliche Rezeption der Legende Vorschub leistet, nach Carnap sei alle Theologie Unsinn. Kant und Frege hielten sinnvolle Theologie klarerweise für möglich. Kant zweifelte nicht daran, mit dem Satz „Gott ist“ oder „Es ist ein Gott“ (KrV, B 627) sagen zu können, was er für nachweislich (...)
- Carnap's Geometrical Methodology: Explication as a Transfer Principle.Matteo De Benedetto - 2023 - Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 11 (4).In this paper, I will offer a novel perspective on Carnapian explication, understanding it as a philosophical analogue of the transfer principle methodology that originated in nineteenth-century projective geometry. Building upon the historical influence that projective geometry exerted on Carnap’s philosophy, I will show how explication can be modeled as a kind of transfer principle that connects, relative to a given task and normatively constrained by the desiderata chosen by the explicators, the functional properties of concepts belonging to different conceptual (...)
- How not to Russell Carnap’s Aufbau.Alan Richardson - 1990 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1):2-14.Rudolf Carnap is principally renowned for stating with remarkable precision and rigor a rich variety of philosophical doctrines — doctrines which, thanks mainly to Carnap’s meticulous formulations, the philosophical world now holds to be clearly and fundamentally mistaken. Thus, it is Carnap who, in Meaning and Necessity (Carnap 1947), presents in detail the linguistic doctrine of logical truth and the semantic underpinnings of the analytic/synthetic distinction, providing thereby the grist for the mill of Quine’s highly influential and important attacks on (...)
- A Propósito de la Falta de Continuidad de Las Experiencias Elementales En El Aufbau de Carnap.Carlos Alberto Cardona Suárez - 2011 - Praxis Filosófica 23:21-38.El artículo critica la naturaleza instantánea impuesta a las experienciaselementales en el sistema construccional propuesto por Carnap en Derlogische Aufbau der Welt. Inspirado en una idea seminal de Peirce, propongoalgunas modificaciones a los primeros niveles del sistema construccionalsin dejar de advertir que una adaptación más cuidadosa exige atender otrascríticas sustanciales.
- Logicism and Principle of Tolerance: Carnap’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics.Stefano Domingues Stival - forthcoming - History and Philosophy of Logic:1-14.In this paper, the connection between logicism and the principle of tolerance in Carnap’s philosophy of logic and mathematics is to be presented in terms of the history of its development. Such development is conditioned by two lines of criticism to Carnap’s attempt to combine Logicism and Conventionalism, the first of which comes from Gödel, the second from Alfred Tarski. The presentation will take place in three steps. First, the Logicism of Carnap before the publication of The Logical Syntax of (...)
- Rudolf Carnap.Thomas Uebel - 2006 - In John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy, Volume 4: The Twentieth Century: Moore to Popper. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 111-133.
- Carnap and the Legacy of Rational Reconstruction.Yael Gazit & Michael Beaney - forthcoming - In Christian Damböck & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbook. J. B. Metzler Verlag.Among his many contributions to philosophy, Carnap’s work also influenced the historiography of philosophy. In his Aufbau of 1928, he introduced the term ‘rational reconstruction’ (‘rationale Nachkonstruction’), which is now known as a central approach to the history of philosophy. Carnap’s own conception, though, had nothing to do with our engagement with the Mighty Dead. It was only later, when subsequent philosophers appropriated the term, that it entered the historiographical debate. In this chapter we sketch the development of the notion (...)Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - Las teorías modernas de la probabilidad: la probabilidad y la lógica inductiva en Carnap.Eduardo H. Del Busto - 1955 - Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Filosofía e Historia de la Ciencia.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Meaning and necessity.Rudolf Carnap - 1947 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press."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 (...)
- Carnap Versus Popper.Miguel López Astorga - 2023 - Logos and Episteme 14 (2):131-139.Carnap and Popper proposed ways scientists have to work. According to Carnap, they should look for confirmations for hypotheses. In Popper‘s view, what is important is to try to falsify hypotheses. Cognitive science seems to prove that, in real scientific research, both activities play a role. First, people attempt to confirm hypotheses. Second, they seek examples refuting those hypotheses. This paper is intended to show that the theory of mental models can describe the mental processes involved in both tasks: confirmation (...)
- La superación de la metafísica por medio del análisis lógico del lenguaje.Rudolf Carnap - 1961 - México]: Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Would Carnap have tolerated modern metaphysics?Wouter A. Cohen & Marschall Benjamin - 2023 - The Monist 106 (3):326-341.It is well known that Carnap, early in his philosophical career, took most of metaphysics to consist of meaningless pseudostatements. In contrast to this meaning-theoretic critique of metaphysics, we develop what we take to be Carnap’s later value-based critique. We argue that this later critique is forceful against several central contemporary metaphysical debates, its origin in the principle of tolerance notwithstanding.
- Carnap and Quine on Explanationism in Ontology.Anthony Dardis - forthcoming - Acta Analytica:1-18.Let “explanationism” be the view that ontology is fundamentally an explanatory enterprise. What it does is “on a par” with natural science, as Quine put it. Carnap appears to offer a “lighter weight” alternative in “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”: ontology is concerned with semantics and language choice. This paper argues that Carnap’s account of the internal/external distinction is of less use than Carnap suggests for diagnosis of disputes in ontology. But he largely agrees with Quine about explanationism. I propose that (...)
- Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie.Rudolf Carnap - 1928 - [Frankfurt a. M.]: Suhrkamp.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Logische Syntax der Sprache.Rudolf Carnap - 1934 - Wien, New York,: Springer Verlag.Seit beinahe einem Jahrhundert sind Mathematiker und Logiker mit Erfolg bemiiht, aus der Logik eine strenge Wissen schaft zu machen. Dieses Ziel ist in einem gewissen Sinn erreicht worden: man hat gelemt, in der Logistik mit Symbolen und Formeln ii. hnlich denen der Mathematik in strenger Weise zu operieren. Aber ein logisches Buch muB auBer den Formeln auch Zwischentext enthalten, der mit Hilfe der gewohnlichen Wort sprache iiber die Formeln spricht und ihren Zusammenhang kIar macht. Dieser Zwischentext laBt oft an (...)
- Einführung in die Philosophie der Naturwissenschaft.Rudolf Carnap - 1969 - München: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung.
- Bedeutung und Notwendigkeit.Rudolf Carnap - 1972 - New York,: Springer Verlag.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Lewis and Quine in context.Sander Verhaegh - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2):1-8.Robert Sinclair’s *Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction* persuasively argues that Quine’s epistemology was deeply influenced by C. I. Lewis’s pragmatism. Sinclair’s account raises the question why Quine himself frequently downplayed Lewis’s influence. Looking back, Quine has always said that Rudolf Carnap was his “greatest teacher” and that his 1933 meeting with the German philosopher was his “first experience of sustained intellectual engagement with anyone of an older generation” (1970, 41; 1985, 97-8, my emphasis). Quine’s autobiographies contain only a (...)
- Einführung in die symbolische Logik.Rudolf Carnap - 1968 - New York,: Springer Verlag.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Quine's Naturalistic Explication of Carnap's Logic of Science.Gary Ebbs - 2013 - In Gilbert Harman & Ernie Lepore (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine. Oxford, UK: Wiley. pp. 465–482.Gillian Russell: Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction: This paper examines several of Quine's arguments against the analytic/synthetic distinction: the main arguments from “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” and several arguments against truth in virtue of meaning from “Truth by Convention” and “Carnap on Logical Truth.” It proposes a particular interpretation of the Circularity Argument that helps to make sense of several related puzzles concerning it, and endorses some of the epistemological lessons of the Argument from Confirmation Holism, but it argues that (...)
- Quine's Conception of Explication – and Why It Isn't Carnap's.Martin Gustafsson - 2013 - In Gilbert Harman & Ernie Lepore (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine. Oxford, UK: Wiley. pp. 508–525.Robert Sinclair: Quine on Evidence: Quine's influential “Epistemology Naturalized” is typically read as arguing for the replacement of the “normative” project of traditional epistemology with a psychological description of the causal processes involved in belief acquisition. Recent commentators have rejected this view, arguing that rather than eliminate normative concerns, Quine's proposal seeks to locate them within his scientific conception of epistemology. This chapter examines this debate concerning the normative credentials of Quine's naturalized account of knowledge and its consequences for understanding (...)
- Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970).Sahotra Sarkar - 2001 - In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Malden, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell. pp. 94–109.This chapter contains sections titled: Space The constructionist phase Viennese positivism The syntactic phase Semantics Inductive logic The legacy.
- Logical Empiricism and Naturalism: Neurath and Carnap’s Metatheory of Science.Joseph Bentley - 2023 - Springer Nature Switzerland.This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for the complementarity of their mature philosophies as part of a collaborative metatheory of science. In arguing that both Neurath and Carnap must be interpreted as proponents of epistemological naturalism, and that their naturalisms rest on shared philosophical ground, it is also demonstrated that the boundaries and possibilities for epistemological naturalism are not as restrictive as Quinean orthodoxy has (...)
- Kosmos Noetos and Carnap’s Constitution of Cultural Objects.Arto Siitonen - 2006 - In Nikos Psarros & Katinka Schulte-Ostermann (eds.), Facets of Sociality. De Gruyter. pp. 33-50.$129.41 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Die Korrespondenz zwischen Otto Neurath und Rudolf Carnap aus den Jahren 1934 bis 1945 — Ein vorläufiger Bericht.Rainer Hegselmann - 1985 - In Hans J. Dahms (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaft, Aufklärung: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Wiener Kreises. De Gruyter. pp. 276-290.$215.00 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark 1 citation
- The Carnap Handbook.Christian Damboeck & Georg Schiemer (eds.) - forthcoming - J. B. Metzler.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Carnap on Quantum Mechanics.Sebastian Horvat & Iulian D. Toader - forthcoming - In Christian Damboeck & Georg Schiemer (eds.), The Carnap Handbook. J. B. Metzler.This entry reviews Rudolf Carnap's philosophical views on the quantum mechanics of his time. It also offers some thoughts on how Carnap might have reacted to some recent developments in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
- Behavior, valuation, and pragmatism in C.I. Lewis and W.V. Quine.Paul L. Franco - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):1-10.I explore three points about the relationship between C.I. Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism and W.V. Quine’s naturalized epistemology inspired by Robert Sinclair’s Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction. First, I highlight Lewis’s long-standing commitment to Platonism about meaning and its connection to his reflective philosophical method and rejection of a linguistic account of analyticity. Second, I consider Sinclair’s claim that “Lewis’s epistemology provides no indication concerning how, despite different sensory experiences, we still come to agree on what we are talking (...)
- Carnap and Quine.Sander Verhaegh - forthcoming - In Christian Damböck & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbook. J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- Carnap and Reichenbach.Sander Verhaegh - forthcoming - In Christian Damböck & Georg Schiemer (eds.), Rudolf Carnap Handbook. J. B. Metzler Verlag.
- Carnap and Quine: First Encounters (1932-1936).Sander Verhaegh - 2023 - In The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 11-31.Carnap and Quine first met in the 1932-33 academic year, when the latter, fresh out of graduate school, visited the key centers of mathematical logic in Europe. In the months that Carnap was finishing his Logische Syntax der Sprache, Quine spent five weeks in Prague, where they discussed the manuscript “as it issued from Ina Carnap’s typewriter”. The philosophical friendship that emerged in these weeks would have a tremendous impact on the course of analytic philosophy. Not only did the meetings (...)
- In the Mood: Why Vibes Matter in Reading and Writing Philosophy.Helen De Cruz - 2023 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 93:171-191.Philosophers often write in a particular mood; their work is playful, strident, strenuous, or nostalgic. On the face of it, these moods contribute little to a philosophical argument and are merely incidental. However, I will argue that the cognitive science of moods and emotions offers us reasons to suspect that mood is relevant for philosophical texts. I use examples from Friedrich Nietzsche and Rudolph Carnap to illustrate the role moods play in their arguments. As readers and writers of philosophical texts, (...)
- Considerações sobre a Teoria da Informação Sem'ntica em An Outline of a Semantic Theory of Information de Bar-Hillel e Carnap.Ralph Leal Heck - 2021 - Analytica. Revista de Filosofia 23 (2):124-133.Esta apresentação identifica os principais conceitos envolvidos na teoria semântica da informação na obra An Outline of a Semantic Theory of Information de Bar-Hillel e Carnap. Inicio indicando as influências e desdobramentos sobre a elaboração desta teoria, seguido dos principais conceitos que os autores usarão para tratar o conteúdo semânticodas sentenças. O ponto de partida são operações conjunto-teoréticas, inicialmente através das funções In e Cont. Mas a dificuldade com a adição os leva a especificar o conceito de informatividade semântica por (...)
- Carnap as a Beall-style logical monist.Teresa Kouri Kissel - 2023 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):1-16.There was a time when both Rudolf Carnap and Jc Beall were thought to be arch logical pluralists. Beall has since renounced his pluralistic views, but Carnap is still largely regarded as a pluralist. In this paper, I will show that there is good reason to think that Carnap is not a logical pluralist, at least in the way he is presented in the literature. Instead, I argue, he can be seen as a Beall-style logical monist at the meta-level, in (...)
- Carnap et la construction logique du monde.Sandra Laugier & Anouk Barberousse (eds.) - 2001 - Paris: J. Vrin.Livre fondateur de R. Carnap, "Der logische Aufbau der Welt" (1928) est une oeuvre philosophique allemande centrale du XXe siècle.Cet ouvrage veut montrer l'actualité de l'"Aufbau" tout en présentant la logique de pensée de Carnap et ses conséquences philosophiques.
- Review:A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, and Sven Schlotter (Eds.), Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings. The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1. Oxford University Press 2019, 528 pp., ISBN: 9780198748403. [REVIEW]Lois Marie Rendl - 2023 - In Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Springer Verlag. pp. 605-607.This first volume of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap includes Carnap’s published writings from 1921 when he submitted his dissertation Der Raum (Space) in Jena to Bruno Bauch to 1926 the year he completed his habilitation in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. It thereby documents Carnap’s early writings during his formative years that culminated in his first major publication Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) which appeared in 1928 and will be included in the second (...)$96.99 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark
- Plagiarism!: Wittgenstein Against Carnap.Richard Creath - 2023 - In Friedrich Stadler (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle: 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Springer Verlag. pp. 161-177.In 1932 Ludwig Wittgenstein accused Rudolf Carnap of plagiarism and seems to have gone so far as to scrawl the word ‘Plagiarism’ on one of Carnap’s offprints and initial that note as well. Priority disputes are inherently distasteful and usually sterile. And they are often impossible to adjudicate fully. I make no such attempt here. But these disputes can also be revealing about what the participants thought they were doing and what they thought they had achieved. It is in this (...)$96.99 new (collection) View on Amazon.comRemove from this list Direct downloadExport citation Bookmark 1 citation
- Review: A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson, and Sven Schlotter (Eds.), Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings. The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1. Oxford University Press 2019, 528 pp., ISBN: 9780198748403. [REVIEW]Lois Marie Rendl - 2023 - Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 28:605-607.This first volume of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap includes Carnap’s published writings from 1921 when he submitted his dissertation Der Raum (Space) in Jena to Bruno Bauch to 1926 the year he completed his habilitation in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. It thereby documents Carnap’s early writings during his formative years that culminated in his first major publication Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) which appeared in 1928 and will be included in the second (...)
- James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments.Shawn Simpson - 2023 - Metaphilosophy 54 (1):134-144.The relationship between American pragmatism and logical empiricism is complicated at best. The received view is that by around the late 1930s or early 1940s pragmatism had been replaced, supplanted, or eclipsed by the younger and more logic-oriented form of empiricism developed in interwar Vienna. Recently, however, this picture has been challenged, and this paper offers further reasons for thinking that the received view is inadequate. Through a critical examination of William James's Pragmatism and “The Sentiment of Rationality” and Rudolf (...)
- On Gödel's way in : the influence of Rudolf Carnap.Warren Goldfarb - 2010 - In Kurt Gödel, Solomon Feferman, Charles Parsons & Stephen G. Simpson (eds.), Kurt Gödel: essays for his centennial. Association for Symbolic Logic.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- From Carnap to Kaila : a neglected transition in the history of 'wissenschaftliche Philosophie'.Matthias Neuber - 2012 - In Ilkka Niiniluoto & Sami Pihlström (eds.), Reappraisals of Eino Kaila's philosophy. Philosophical Society of Finland.
- Eino Kaila in Carnap's circle.Juha Manninen - 2012 - In Ilkka Niiniluoto & Sami Pihlström (eds.), Reappraisals of Eino Kaila's philosophy. Philosophical Society of Finland.
- Objectivity Socialized.James Pearson - 2023 - In Sean Morris (ed.), The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 92-113.Do Quine and Carnap distort the social nature of inquiry by privileging individual epistemic subjects? This objection is at the heart of Donald Davidson’s claim that Quine fails to grasp the significance of the concept of truth. In Carnap’s case, the objection may be detected in Charles Morris’s call to ground scientific philosophy in semiotics, the science of signs, rather than syntax, the formal investigation of languages. Drawing out the challenge from Morris’s proposal requires examining a neglected influence on this (...)
- The Mathematical Roots of Semantic Analysis.Axel Arturo Barcelo Aspeitia - manuscriptSemantic analysis in early analytic philosophy belongs to a long tradition of adopting geometrical methodologies to the solution of philosophical problems. In particular, it adapts Descartes’ development of formalization as a mechanism of analytic representation, for its application in natural language semantics. This article aims to trace the mathematical roots of Frege, Russel and Carnap’s analytic method. Special attention is paid to the formal character of modern analysis introduced by Descartes. The goal is to identify the particular conception of “form” (...)
- Ruth Barcan Marcus’s Role in the Mid-Twentieth Century Debates on Analyticity and Ontology.Gregory Lavers - 2022 - In J. Peijnenburg & S. Verhaegh (eds.), Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy. pp. 247-272.Quine’s ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’ is generally seen as overturning Carnap’s epistemological picture of mathematics and the sciences. However, I wish to stress how this paper grew out of arguments not having anything to do with large-scale epistemological concerns, but ones originally presented against quantified modal logic. Quine thought he could demonstrate the impossibility of adding anything like ordinary quantification to modal logic, but Barcan Marcus did exactly this. In fact, as I will argue, ‘Two Dogmas ...’ can be seen (...)
- Concepts propres et impropres.Rudolf Carnap & Jean-Baptiste Fournier - 2019 - Philosophie 4:10.
- Carnap's philosophy of mathematics.Benjamin Marschall - 2022 - Philosophy Compass 17 (11):e12884.For several decades, Carnap's philosophy of mathematics used to be either dismissed or ignored. It was perceived as a form of linguistic conventionalism and thus taken to rely on the bankrupt notion of truth by convention. However, recent scholarship has revealed a more subtle picture. It has been forcefully argued that Carnap is not a linguistic conventionalist in any straightforward sense, and that supposedly decisive objections against his position target a straw man. This raises two questions. First, how exactly should (...)
| 1 — 50 / 1457 |
PhilPapers logo by Andrea Andrews and Meghan Driscoll.
This site uses cookies and Google Analytics (see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications). Use of this site is subject to terms & conditions.
All rights reserved by The PhilPapers Foundation
Server: philpapers-web-6968689d5f-p7sf7 N