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Rudolf Carnap ( / ˈkɑːrnæp /; [20] German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism . Biography [ edit] Carnap's birthplace in Wuppertal.
Feb 24, 2020 · Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) was one of the best-known philosophers of the twentieth century. Notorious as one of the founders, and perhaps the leading philosophical representative, of the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism, he was one of the originators of the new field of philosophy of science and later a ...
May 14, 2024 · Rudolf Carnap (born May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany—died September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a German-born American philosopher of logical positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science.
Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized U.S. citizen, was a leading exponent of logical positivism and was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of science, philosophy of language, the theory of probability, inductive logic and modal logic.
From 1942 until his death in 1970, Carnap devoted the bulk of his time and energy to the development of a new form of inductive logic.
Carnap’s overall goal in the Aufbau is the design, study, and application of so-called constitution systems (“Konstitutionssysteme”, translated as “constructional systems” in the English translation of the Aufbau, though we prefer the term “constitution systems”): linguistic frameworks supplying all of the (names for) objects and ...
In his philosophical autobiography, The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap (1963), he describes how Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ideas on probability convinced him that he should seek a logical approach to the use of probability in theory evaluation.
Rudolf Carnap (b. 1891–d. 1970) was acknowledged as the principal philosophical spokesman for the movement known as “logical empiricism” or “logical positivism,” and the leading philosopher of the “Vienna Circle” of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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May 18, 2018 · The German-American philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was the most prominent representative of the school of logical positivism, sometimes called logical empiricism. Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany.
