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Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-20
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 0521840155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-20
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1107494966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly, to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline. In this volume a team of contributors explores the major themes of his philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle and with philosophers such as Frege, Husserl, Russell, and Quine. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Carnap.
Author: Alan Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-09-03
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1139826433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical logic as a topic in and tool for philosophy, and initiated the project of formal semantics. Accounts of analytic philosophy written in the middle of the twentieth century gave logical empiricism a central place in the project. The second wave of interpretative accounts was constructed to show how philosophy should progress, or had progressed, beyond logical empiricism. The essays survey the formative stages of logical empiricism in central Europe and its acculturation in North America, discussing its main topics, and achievements and failures, in different areas of philosophy of science, and assessing its influence on philosophy, past, present, and future.
Author: Roger F. Gibson, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-29
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1139825801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKW. V. Quine (1908–2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of Quine's philosophy: the underdetermination of physical theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes, behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and logic.
Author: Giuseppina D'Oro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1107121523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume provides clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The book gives equal weight to analytical and continental approaches, and pays attention to approaches that are often overlooked.
Author: A. W. Carus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-13
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1139467867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRudolf Carnap (1891–1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he was a founder of the philosophical movement known as Logical Empiricism. He was strongly influenced by a number of different philosophical traditions (including the legacies of both Kant and Husserl), and also by the German Youth Movement, the First World War (in which he was wounded and decorated), and radical socialism. This book places his central ideas in a broad cultural, political and intellectual context, showing how he synthesised many different currents of thought to achieve a philosophical perspective that remains strikingly relevant in the twenty-first century. Its rich account of a philosopher's response to his times will appeal to all who are interested in the development of philosophy in the twentieth century.
Author: Dermot Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-10-27
Total Pages: 1404
ISBN-13: 1134424027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is an outstanding authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this collection is divided into five clear parts and presents a comprehensive picture of the period for the first time: major themes and movements logic, language, knowledge and metaphysics philosophy of mind, psychology and science phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, and critical theory politics, ethics, aesthetics. Featuring annotated further reading and a comprehensive glossary, The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is indispensable for anyone interested in philosophy over the last one hundred years, suitable for both expert and novice alike.
Author: Steve Awodey
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780812695519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRudolf 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. But recently, leading philosophers have been re-appraising this verdict. 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 are--as Carnap himself thought--perfectly 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 in Jena, and in his student days was an active member there of the utopian "Sera Group", part of the German youth movement. At the same time, he was one of Frege's few students, and was deeply influenced by him.
Author: Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0521856450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is one of the most comprehensive collections of critical essays to be published on the philosophy of Karl Popper.
Author: John Shand
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0773530177
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