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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. Carnap's birthplace in Wuppertal.
Feb 24, 2020 · 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 leading contributor to semantics and inductive logic.
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.
A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Rudolf Carnap, a leading logical positivist and one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. Learn about his contributions to philosophy of science, language, logic, probability, and physics.
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.
Tolerance was introduced explicitly in 1932, first in a paper replying to Neurath (Carnap 1932e) on the question of the appropriate form of “protocol sentences” (sentences in which empirical observations are recorded), and then most famously in §17 of the Logical Syntax, which we will discuss below.
An overview of the life and work of Rudolf Carnap, the leading philosopher of logical empiricism and the Vienna Circle. Learn about his major books, his principle of tolerance, his explication program, and his legacy in the history of philosophy.
