Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap, 1935, by Francis Schmidt
Born(1891-05-18)18 May 1891
Died14 September 1970(1970-09-14) (aged 79)
EducationUniversity of Jena (B.A., 1914; PhD, 1921)
University of Freiburg (audit student, 1911–12)[5]
University of Berlin (graduate research, 1917–18)[4]
University of Vienna (Dr. phil. hab., 1926)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Nominalism[1]
Vienna Circle
Logical positivism
Logical atomism[2]
Logical behaviorism[3]
Formalism in the philosophy of mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
Charles University
University of Chicago
Institute for Advanced Study
UCLA
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)[4]
Moritz Schlick (Dr. phil. hab.)[4]
Other academic advisorsGottlob Frege
Heinrich Rickert[5]
Doctoral studentsAbner Shimony
David Kaplan
Other notable studentsCarl Gustav Hempel
Peter G. Ossorio
Herbert A. Simon
Raymond Smullyan
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Main interests
Logic · 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. ^ "Review of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals" – ndpr.nd.edu
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Behaviorism". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference SEP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.