The Cambridge Companion to Carnap

This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.

Explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.

Autorentext
Richard Creath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University. He is co-editor with Jane Maienschein of Biology and Epistemology (2000). Michael Friedman is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. He is editor and translator of Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004).

Zusammenfassung
Rudolf Carnap (18911970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. 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.

Inhalt
Preface: Carnap's posthumous career Richard Creath; Introduction: Carnap's revolution in philosophy Michael Friedman; 1. Carnap's intellectual development A. W. Carus; 2. Geometrical leifmotifs in Carnap's early philosophy Thomas Mormann; 3. Carnap and Frege Gottfried Gabriel; 4. Carnap and Husserl Thomas Ryckman; 5. Carnap, Russell, and the external world Christopher Pincock; 6. The Aufbau and the rejection of metaphysics Michael Friedman; 7. Carnap and the Vienna Circle: rational reconstructionism refined Thomas Uebel; 8. Carnap and modern logic Erich H. Reck; 9. Tolerance and logicism: logical syntax and the philosophy of mathematics Thomas Ricketts; 10. Carnap's quest for analyticity: the studies in semantics Steve Awodey; 11. Carnap on the rational reconstruction of scientific theories William Demopoulos; 12. Carnap on probability and induction S. L. Zabell; 13. Carnapian pragmatism Alan Richardson; 14. Quine's challenge to Carnap Richard Creath.

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