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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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.ai 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 DAMBOCK, 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.- Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien-New York: Springer, 2010 (Massimo Ferrari).- Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. (Gunther Sandner).- Giovanni Vailati. Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Edited by Claudia Arrighi, Paola CantA', Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford: CSLI, 2010. (Paolo Palmieri) The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. (Miles MacLeod) Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz ausserordentlicher Tragweite. Schrodingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. (Wolfgang Reiter) Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Index of Names. ai Table of Contents Cover Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism ISBN 9789400739284 eISBN 9789400739291 Table of Contents Editorial Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz toCarnap and Quine References Carnap's Untersuchungen: logicism, formal axiomatics, and metatheory Introduction Carnap's General Axiomatics in 1928 A logicist reconstruction of axiomatics? The (logical) definability of models Carnap's logical models A restricted metatheory Outlook References Realism as a Problem of Language -From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila 1. Introduction 2. Carnap's Original Contribution: The Realism Issue as a`Pseudo-Problem' 3. R eichenbach's App ropriation and Critique of Carnap's View 4. Carnap (and Feigl) versus Reichenbach 5. Kaila's Non-Linguistic Way Out 6. Concluding Remarks Analyticity in the Theoretical Language:Is a Different Account Really Necessary? §1. T he Road to the Carnap Sentence §2. Carnap's motivations §3 The Carnap-Sentence Approach Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey:"German" Empiricism in the Aufbau 1. Introduction 2. Dilthey's "German" Empiricism 3. Dilthey's Nonreductionism 4. Dilthey in a broader historical context 5. "German" Empiricism in the Aufbau Bibliography Carnap's Encounter with Pragmatism 1. Introduction 2. Pragmatist Criticism of Verificationism 3. Two Models of Convergence 4. Carnap's Reply in "Testability and Meaning" Bibliography Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond 1. The Kantian Legacy 2. The A priori in Logical Empiricism and Neo-Kantianism 3. Lewis's Pragmatic A Priori 4. Contingent Transcendental Argumentsfor Metaphysical Principles. 5. The Structure of the A priori accordingto Cognitive Semantics 6. Conceptual Metaphors and Category Theory 7. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Carnap, Philosophy and "Politics in its Broadest Sense" I II III IV V VI VII References A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the ViennaCircle after 1933 1. Cassirer and Other Philosophers 2. Physicalist Monism and Symbolic Pluralism 3. Expression Perception 4. Lebensphilosophie 5. Affinities and Differences References Emergence - still trendy after all these years 1. Emergence: an inherently interdisciplinary topic 2. Core issues, questions and terms 3. Corradini and O'Connor 4. Macdonald and Macdonald 5. Summing up References Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien-NewYork: Springer, 2010. Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics toIsotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. Giovanni Vailati, Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Editedby Claudia Arrighi, Paola Cantù, Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford:CSLI, 2010. The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by MichaelHeidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020694-4. Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz außerordentlicher Tragweite.Schrödingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. vol. 1, xix + 1-508 pages, vol. 2, xix + 509-929pages, ISBN 978-3-642-04335-5. Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle Activities 2011 Preview 2012 Index of Names

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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.ai 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 DAMBOCK, 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.- Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien-New York: Springer, 2010 (Massimo Ferrari).- Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. (Gunther Sandner).- Giovanni Vailati. Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Edited by Claudia Arrighi, Paola CantA', Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford: CSLI, 2010. (Paolo Palmieri) The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. (Miles MacLeod) Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz ausserordentlicher Tragweite. Schrodingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. (Wolfgang Reiter) Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Index of Names. ai Table of Contents Cover Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism ISBN 9789400739284 eISBN 9789400739291 Table of Contents Editorial Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz toCarnap and Quine References Carnap's Untersuchungen: logicism, formal axiomatics, and metatheory Introduction Carnap's General Axiomatics in 1928 A logicist reconstruction of axiomatics? The (logical) definability of models Carnap's logical models A restricted metatheory Outlook References Realism as a Problem of Language -From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila 1. Introduction 2. Carnap's Original Contribution: The Realism Issue as a`Pseudo-Problem' 3. R eichenbach's App ropriation and Critique of Carnap's View 4. Carnap (and Feigl) versus Reichenbach 5. Kaila's Non-Linguistic Way Out 6. Concluding Remarks Analyticity in the Theoretical Language:Is a Different Account Really Necessary? §1. T he Road to the Carnap Sentence §2. Carnap's motivations §3 The Carnap-Sentence Approach Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey:"German" Empiricism in the Aufbau 1. Introduction 2. Dilthey's "German" Empiricism 3. Dilthey's Nonreductionism 4. Dilthey in a broader historical context 5. "German" Empiricism in the Aufbau Bibliography Carnap's Encounter with Pragmatism 1. Introduction 2. Pragmatist Criticism of Verificationism 3. Two Models of Convergence 4. Carnap's Reply in "Testability and Meaning" Bibliography Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond 1. The Kantian Legacy 2. The A priori in Logical Empiricism and Neo-Kantianism 3. Lewis's Pragmatic A Priori 4. Contingent Transcendental Argumentsfor Metaphysical Principles. 5. The Structure of the A priori accordingto Cognitive Semantics 6. Conceptual Metaphors and Category Theory 7. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Carnap, Philosophy and "Politics in its Broadest Sense" I II III IV V VI VII References A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the ViennaCircle after 1933 1. Cassirer and Other Philosophers 2. Physicalist Monism and Symbolic Pluralism 3. Expression Perception 4. Lebensphilosophie 5. Affinities and Differences References Emergence - still trendy after all these years 1. Emergence: an inherently interdisciplinary topic 2. Core issues, questions and terms 3. Corradini and O'Connor 4. Macdonald and Macdonald 5. Summing up References Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien-NewYork: Springer, 2010. Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics toIsotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. Giovanni Vailati, Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Editedby Claudia Arrighi, Paola Cantù, Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford:CSLI, 2010. The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by MichaelHeidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020694-4. Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz außerordentlicher Tragweite.Schrödingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. vol. 1, xix + 1-508 pages, vol. 2, xix + 509-929pages, ISBN 978-3-642-04335-5. Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle Activities 2011 Preview 2012 Index of Names