Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist: Materials and Perspectives

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Jaakko Hintikka
Springer, Nov 14, 2014 - Science - 406 pages
 

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ΧΙ
xiii
CARL G HEMPEL Rudolf Carnap Logical Empiricist
1
ANDERS WEDBERG How Carnap Built the World in 1928 15
14
ROLF A EBERLE A Construction of Quality Classes Improved
55
RUDOLF CARNAP Observation Language and Theoretical
74
RYSZARD WÓJCICKI The Factual Content of Empirical
95
WILLIAMS On the Conservative Extensions of Semantical
123
JOHN A WINNIETheoretical Analyticity 143
142
JAAKKO HINTIKKA Carnaps Heritage in Logical Semantics
217
BARBARA HALL PARTEE The Semantics of BeliefSentences
243
RUDOLF CARNAP Notes on Probability and Induction
293
JEFFREY Carnaps Inductive Logic
325
RISTO HILPINEN Carnaps New System of Inductive Logic
333
THEO A F KUIPERS A Generalization of Carnaps Inductive
361
JAAKKO HINTIKKA Carnap and Essler versus Inductive Gener
371
Introduction to Two
381

ANDERS WEDBERG Decision and Belief in Science Comments
161
HERBERT G BOHNERT Carnaps Logicism 183
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INDEX OF NAMES 397
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About the author (2014)

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Bibliographic information

TitleRudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist: Materials and Perspectives
Volume 73 of Synthese Library
EditorJaakko Hintikka
PublisherSpringer, 2014
ISBN9401018073, 9789401018074
Length406 pages
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