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Jun 26, 2024 · In his Formalization of Logic (1943) Carnap pointed out that there are non-normal interpretations of classical logic: non-standard interpretations of the connectives and quantifiers that are consistent with the classical consequence relation of a language.
Jun 19, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap, a leading member of the movement known as logical positivism, in an equally famous essay, “Überwindung der Metaphysik durch die logische Analyse der Sprache” (1931; “The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language”), criticized the hypostatization (or making real) of Nothingness as one of ...
Jun 18, 2024 · The group of philosophers that gathered around Schlick at Vienna included Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath and the mathematicians and scientists Kurt Gödel, Philipp Frank, and Hans Hahn. Influenced by Schlick’s predecessors in the chair of philosophy in Vienna, Ernst Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann , the Circle also drew on the work of ...
2 days ago · Other important figures in its history include Franz Brentano, the logical positivists (particularly Rudolf Carnap), the ordinary language philosophers, W. V. O. Quine, and Karl Popper. After the decline of logical positivism, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others led a revival in metaphysics.
6 days ago · Rudolf Carnap Lectures 2024. In March 2024, I delivered a series of four lectures on philosophy and neuroscience at Ruhr University. They were part of a named lecture series called the Carnap Lectures. Lecture #2 is for a general audience. The other three were attended mostly by philosophy faculty. Three Lessons about Emotion.
Jun 24, 2024 · This outline focuses on the issues of metaphysical progress from science, while the Outline on the scientific method discusses the epistemological foundations and limitations of science. This could have been called the outline of “Metaphysics” or “The realism debate.”.
Jun 19, 2024 · Given the recent revival of interest in Carnap’s meta-ontology, it is time that philosophers of causation take Carnap’s critique of metaphysics seriously. In this article, I shall develop a Carnapian-pragmatist approach to causation as an alternative to existing metaphysical approaches.
