Objectivity and understanding: a new reading of Carnap’s Aufbau

Synthese 192 (5):1543-1557 (2015)
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This paper argues that Carnap's project in the Aufbau is best considered as an attempt to determine the conditions for both objectivity and understanding, thus aiming at refuting the skeptical contention that objectivity and understanding are incompossible ideals of science.

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10.1007/s11229-014-0648-2

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The View From Nowhere.Thomas Nagel - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Constructing the World.David John Chalmers (ed.) - 2012 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Der Logische Aufbau der Welt.Rudolf Carnap - 1928 - Hamburg: Meiner Verlag.
The View from Nowhere.Thomas Nagel - 1986 - Behaviorism 15 (1):73-82.
Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.Hermann Weyl - 1949 - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Edited by Olaf Helmer-Hirschberg & Frank Wilczek.

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