Interpreting Carnap - Critical Essays

"A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science"--

List of contents

Introduction: Carnap's transformation of the canon Alan Richardson and Adam Tamas Tuboly; Part I. Philosophy in New Dress: 1. Carnap's non-cognitivism: paths and influences Christian Damböck; 2. Carnap is not against metaphysics Vera Flocke; 3. Interpreting Carnap's construction of the world Chistopher Pincock; 4. Philosophy in a collective spirit as politics in its broadest sense Audrey Yap; Part II. Naturalism and Method: 5. Shades of naturalism: Carnap and Quine André W. Carus; 6. On Quine's epistemological objection to Carnap's analyticity Joseph Bentley and Thomas Uebel; 7. Carnapian explication: origins and shifting goals Erich H. Reck; Part III. The Logical and The Linguistic: 8. Carnap's approach to semantics and syntax: relations and tension Pierre Wagner; 9. Carnap on the formality of logic and mathematics Georg Schiemer; 10. The origin and evolution of Carnap's work on probability and induction Sandy Zabell; 11. Metaphysics, tolerance, and language planning: Carnap on international auxiliary languages Bäak Array; Part IV. Science and Theories: 12. Carnap on theories and the methods of science Lydia Patton; 13. Carnap on unity of science Bianca Crewe and Alan Richardson; 14. Carnap on determinism and free will Richard Creath; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alan Richardson (Editor), Adam Tamas Tuboly (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009096874
• ISBN: 978-1-009-09687-4
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, german, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Popular philosophy, Central Europe, Western philosophy from c 1800, The Americas, Topics in philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism