Ebook: Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​

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A collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars. The volume shows the rich variety of Carnap’s concerns and his place within important intellectual traditions that shape our thinking even today. Editorial MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine.- GEORG SCHIEMER, Carnap’s Untersuchungen: Logicism, Formal Semantics,and Metatheory.- MATTHIAS NEUBER, Realism as a Problem of Language – From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila.- RICHARD CREATH, Analyticity in the Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Really Necessary?.- CHRISTIAN DAMBÖCK, Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: “German” Empiricism in the Aufbau.- CHRISTOPH LIMBECK-LILIENAU, Carnap’s Encounter with Pragmatism.- THOMAS MORMANN, Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori:From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond.- THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap, Philosophy, and “Politics in its Broadest Sense”.- GENERAL PART.- REVIEW ESSAYS.- THOMAS MORMANN, A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933.- JOHN MICHAEL, Emergence – still trendy after all these years.- REVIEWS.