The Cambridge companion to Carnap / edited by Michael Friedman and Richard Creath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creath, Richard.

Friedman, Michael, 1947-

Series:

Cambridge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnap, Rudolf, 1891-1970.

Carnap, Rudolf.

Vienna circle.

Physical Description:

xvii, 371 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Carnap

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly, to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline. In this volume a team of contributors explores the major themes of his philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle and with philosophers such as Frege, Husserl, Russell, and Quine. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Carnap.

Contents:

Preface: Carnap's posthumous career / Richard Creath xiii

Introduction: Carnap's revolution in philosophy / Michael Friedman 1

1 Carnap's intellectual development / A. W. Carus 19

2 Geometrical leitmotifs in Carnap's early philosophy / Thomas Mormann 43

3 Carnap and Frege / Gottfried Gabriel 65

4 Carnap and Husserl / Thomas Ryckman 81

5 Carnap, Russell, and the external world / Christopher Pincock 106

6 The Aufbau and the rejection of metaphysics / Michael Friedman 129

7 Carnap and the Vienna Circle: rational reconstructionism refined / Thomas Uebel 153

8 Carnap and modern logic / Erich H. Reck 176

9 Tolerance and logicism: logical syntax and the philosophy of mathematics / Thomas Ricketts 200

10 Carnap's quest for analyticity: the Studies in Semantics / Steve Awodey 226

11 Carnap on the rational reconstruction of scientific theories / William Demopoulos 248

12 Carnap on probability and induction / S. L. Zabell 273

13 Carnapian pragmatism / Alan Richardson 295

14 Quine's challenge to Carnap / Richard Creath 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521840156

0521840155

9780521549455

0521549450

OCLC:

123798027