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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 . Biography. Carnap's birthplace in Wuppertal.
Feb 24, 2020 · Notorious as one of the founders, and perhaps the leading philosophical representative, of the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism, he was one of the originators of the new field of philosophy of science and later a leading contributor to semantics and inductive logic.
May 14, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap (born May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany—died September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a German-born American philosopher of logical positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science.
Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized U.S. citizen, was a leading exponent of logical positivism and was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of science, philosophy of language, the theory of probability, inductive logic and modal logic.
From 1942 until his death in 1970, Carnap devoted the bulk of his time and energy to the development of a new form of inductive logic.
Throughout his career, the rational reconstruction of scientific theories constituted one of the cornerstones of Carnap’s work (see, e.g., Demopoulos 2007, Andreas 2007, Lutz 2012a,b for surveys).
Jun 27, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap's first major book, The Logical Structure of the World [Der logische Aufbau der Welt] (2003a [1928]; hereafter referred to as “Aufbau”), is a key work for the understanding of the philosophical movement called “logical positivism” or “logical empiricism”.
