Interpreting Carnap : critical essays / edited by Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN, Research Centre for the Humanities.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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xi, 311 pages ; 24 cm

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"A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
First published 2024.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-307) and index.
Contents
  • Carnap's noncognitivism : paths and influences / Christian Damböck
  • Carnap is not against metaphysics / Vera Flocke
  • Interpreting Carnap's construction of the world / Christopher Pincock
  • Philosophy in a collective spirit as "politics in its broadest sense" / Audrey Yap
  • Shades of naturalism : Carnap and Quine / André W. Carus
  • On Quine's epistemological objection to Carnap's analyticity / Joseph Bentley, Thomas Uebel
  • Carnapian explication : origins and shifting goals / Erich H. Reck
  • Carnap's approach to semantics and syntax : relations and tension / Pierre Wagner
  • Carnap on the formality of logic and mathematics / Georg Schiemer
  • Carnap on probability and induction / Sandy Zabell
  • Metaphysics, tolerance, and language planning : Carnap on international auxiliary languages / Başak Aray.
ISBN
  • 9781009098205
  • 1009098209 ((hardback))
  • 9781009096874 ((paperback))
  • 1009096877 ((paperback))
LCCN
2023038129
OCLC
1394113653
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