Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena (Full Circle)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812695518 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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At the same time, he was one of Frege’s few students, and was deeply influenced by him.. Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was the most important philosopher of the movement known as logical empiricism or logical positivism, still the basis of much modern analytic philosophy. It was long thought that this movement had been destroyed by the polemics of Quine, Popper, and Kuhn. It is no longer universally agreed that Quine or Popper "won" their disputes with Carnap, and some have now been arguing that Kuhn’s ideas areas Carnap himself thoughtperfectly compatible with logical empiricism.This volume presents the latest contributions to this discussion from both sides, and adds a number of new voices, who look at Carnap from a more international point of view bringing out, for instance, the roots of his thought in Continental neo-Kantianism and Dilthey’s Lebensphilosophie, and stressing his deep commitment to political and cultural change. Carnap grew up i
-- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, July, 2005. "the book is exceptional in situating Carnap's ideas historically and revealing the diverse influences that shaped his philosophy." -- International Studies in the philosophy of Science, July, 2005the book is exceptional in situating Carnap's ideas historically and revealing the diverse influences that shaped his philosophy
"Articles on Carnap" according to Matthias Brendel. This book is a collection of articles on Carnap. Interesting for specialists. You should consider the year of publication, the authors and the table of content, if you are interested in it.