Interpreting Carnap: Critical Essays

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Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Adam Tamas Tuboly (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)

Interpreting Carnap

Critical Essays

Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Adam Tamas Tuboly (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)

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Cambridge University Press
08 February 2024

Philosophy; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Popular philosophy; History of ideas

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.

Edited by: Alan Richardson (University of British Columbia Vancouver), Adam Tamas Tuboly (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 636g
ISBN: 9781009098205
ISBN 10: 1009098209
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Carnap's transformation of the canon Alan Richardson and Adam Tamas Tuboly; Part I. Philosophy in New Dress: 1. Carnap's non-cognitivism: paths and influences Christian Damböck; 2. Carnap is not against metaphysics Vera Flocke; 3. Interpreting Carnap's construction of the world Chistopher Pincock; 4. Philosophy in a collective spirit as politics in its broadest sense Audrey Yap; Part II. Naturalism and Method: 5. Shades of naturalism: Carnap and Quine André W. Carus; 6. On Quine's epistemological objection to Carnap's analyticity Joseph Bentley and Thomas Uebel; 7. Carnapian explication: origins and shifting goals Erich H. Reck; Part III. The Logical and The Linguistic: 8. Carnap's approach to semantics and syntax: relations and tension Pierre Wagner; 9. Carnap on the formality of logic and mathematics Georg Schiemer; 10. The origin and evolution of Carnap's work on probability and induction Sandy Zabell; 11. Metaphysics, tolerance, and language planning: Carnap on international auxiliary languages Başak Array; Part IV. Science and Theories: 12. Carnap on theories and the methods of science Lydia Patton; 13. Carnap on unity of science Bianca Crewe and Alan Richardson; 14. Carnap on determinism and free will Richard Creath; Bibliography; Index.

Alan Richardson is Professor of Philosophy at University of British Columbia. He is the author of Carnap's Construction of the World (Cambridge, 1998) and is on the editorial board of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap (2019). Adam Tamas Tuboly is Leader of the MTA Lendulet Values and Science Research Group, Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest and research fellow at the ITD, Medical School, University of Pécs. He is co-author (with Christopher Burke) of Otto Neurath in Britain (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).