Screen LibraryInterpreting Carnap : critical essays /
"A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values,...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science"-- "Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, helped found logical positivism, was one of the originators of the field of philosophy of science, and was a leading contributor to semantics and inductive logic. This volume of new essays, written by leading international experts, places Carnap in his philosophical context and studies his topics, his interests, and the major stages of his thought. The essays reassess Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science. They delve into important topics of Carnap's mature thought, namely explication, naturalism, and his defence of analyticity; and they recover the logical and the linguistic components of philosophy and how they unfolded in the syntax-semantics relation, induction, and language-planning. The resulting interpretation of Carnap will be illuminating for both current and future research." -- |
| Item Description: | First published 2024. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 311 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-307) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009098205 1009098209 9781009096874 1009096877 |
| Index Number: | B945 |
| CLC: | B712.59 |
| Call Number: | B712.59/I619 |
| Contents: |
Carnap's noncognitivism : paths and influences / Carnap is not against metaphysics / Interpreting Carnap's construction of the world / Philosophy in a collective spirit as "politics in its broadest sense" / Shades of naturalism : Carnap and Quine / On Quine's epistemological objection to Carnap's analyticity / Carnapian explication : origins and shifting goals / Carnap's approach to semantics and syntax : relations and tension / Carnap on the formality of logic and mathematics / Carnap on probability and induction / Metaphysics, tolerance, and language planning : Carnap on international auxiliary languages / Carnap on theories and the methods of science / Carnap on unity of science / Carnap on determinism and free will / |