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2 days ago · Recent discussions of logical pluralism trace its origins to Rudolf Carnap’s principle of tolerance; indeed, the principle is seen as one of Carnap’s lasting philosophical contributions. In this paper, I will argue that Carnap’s reasons for adopting this principle are not purely logical, but are rather founded in the Vienna Circle’s manifesto—a programmatic document that brings the ...
1 day ago · Other important figures in its history include Franz Brentano, the logical positivists (particularly Rudolf Carnap), the ordinary language philosophers, W. V. O. Quine, and Karl Popper. After the decline of logical positivism, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others led a revival in metaphysics.
Jun 30, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap: Brief Biography and Works Rudolf Carnap was born in Germany in 1891.21 He was an expert in mathematics, physics22 and philosophy,23 studying at the University of Jena under the guidance of Gottlieb Ferg (1848-1925). Like other figures in the Vienna Circle, Carnap accommodated many of Mach and Bertrand Russel’s24
Jul 2, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2024. In March 2024, I delivered a series of four lectures on philosophy and neuroscience at Ruhr University. They were part of a named lecture series called the Carnap Lectures. Lecture #2 is for a general audience.
3 days ago · The deductive-nomological model ( DN model) of scientific explanation, also known as Hempel's model, the Hempel–Oppenheim model, the Popper–Hempel model, or the covering law model, is a formal view of scientifically answering questions asking, "Why...?".
2 days ago · Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) questioned the objectivity of ontological theories by claiming that what exists depends on one's linguistic framework. He had a strong influence on Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who analyzed the ontological commitments of scientific theories to solve ontological problems.
Jul 5, 2024 · In a work entitled Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), Russell analyzed the concept of physical objects as comprising classes of (perceptual) aspects or perspectives, an idea that later stimulated the work of Rudolf Carnap, an outstanding philosophical semanticist and analyst, entitled Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928; The Logical ...
