Interpreting Carnap : critical essays / edited by Alan Richardson, Adam Tamas Tuboly.

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English
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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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.
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Contents
  • Carnap is not against metaphysics / Vera Flocke
  • On Quine's epistemological objection to Carnap's analyticity / Joseph Bentley and Thomas Uebel
  • Carnap on determinism and free will / Richard Creath.
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9781009099080 (ebook)
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