The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 12/20/2007
EAN 9780521549455, ISBN10: 0521549450
Paperback, 390 pages, 22.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly, to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline. In this volume a team of contributors explores the major themes of his philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle and with philosophers such as Frege, Husserl, Russell, and Quine. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Carnap.
Preface
Carnap's posthumous career Richard Creath
Introduction
Carnap's revolution in philosophy Michael Friedman
1. Carnap's intellectual development A. W. Carus
2. Geometrical leifmotifs in Carnap's early philosophy Thomas Mormann
3. Carnap and Frege Gottfried Gabriel
4. Carnap and Husserl Thomas Ryckman
5. Carnap, Russell, and the external world Christopher Pincock
6. The Aufbau and the rejection of metaphysics Michael Friedman
7. Carnap and the Vienna Circle
rational reconstructionism refined Thomas Uebel
8. Carnap and modern logic Erich H. Reck
9. Tolerance and logicism
logical syntax and the philosophy of mathematics Thomas Ricketts
10. Carnap's quest for analyticity
the studies in semantics Steve Awodey
11. Carnap on the rational reconstruction of scientific theories William Demopoulos
12. Carnap on probability and induction S. L. Zabell
13. Carnapian pragmatism Alan Richardson
14. Quine's challenge to Carnap Richard Creath.