Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism / edited by Pierre Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Pierre, editor.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Series:

History of analytic philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnap, Rudolf, 1891-1970.

Carnap, Rudolf.

Physical Description:

xii, 263 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Camap's ideal of explication has become a key concept in analytic philosophy and the basis of a method of analysis which many be considered as an alternative to various forms of naturalism, including Quine's conception of naturalized epistemology.

More recently, new light has been shed on this aspect of the classical Carnap-Quine debate by contemporary philosophers. Whereas Michael Friedman articulated a notion of relativized a priori which owes much to Carnp's internal/external distinction, André Carus attempted to restate Carnap' ideal of explication in a way that bridges the gap between conceptual engineering and naturalism. On the other hand, Mark Wilson argued that concepts develop in unpredictable ways and cannot be planned in the way classical analytic philosophy has assumed from Frege and Russell onwards.

This book consists of a series of defences as well as critiques of Carnap's programme, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the ongoing debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Carnap's place in analytic philosophy and philosophy of science / Alan Richardson

Carnap, pseudo-problems, and ontological questions / Gottfried Gabriel

Carnap, Turing and Wittgenstein : contrasting notions of analysis / Juliet Floyd

Rudolf Carnap and the legacy of Aufklärung / Jacques Bouveresse

Carnap's boundless ocean of unlimited possibilities : between enlightenment and romanticism / Thomas Mormann

Carnap's conception of philosophy / Wolfgang Kienzler

Carnapian explication : a case study and critique / Erich Reck

The bipartite conception of metatheory and the dialectical conception of explication / Thomas Uebel

Explicating "analytic" / Steve Awodey

Carnap and the semantical explication of analyticity / Philippe de Rouilhan

Before explication / Richard Creath

Natural languages, formal systems, and explication / Pierre Wagner

Rational reconstruction, explication, and the rejection of metaphysics / Michael Friedman

The perils of Pollyanna / Mark Wilson

Engineers and drifters : the ideal of explication and its critics / André Carus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0230282598

9780230282599

OCLC:

780398287

Publisher Number:

99949617312