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Rudolf Carnap. Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably the most important advocate for logical positivism and the program of the Vienna Circle, at least in the ...
F. Semantics. In 1931, Carnap had rejected certain philosophical uses of meaning as metaphysical and developed a quite different formal-syntactic account of linguistic symbols. In application to the meaning of logical symbols, his approach could be called, in contemporary terminology, a version of “proof-theoretic semantics” or “logical ...
Rudolf Carnap (b. 1891–d. 1970) was acknowledged as the principal philosophical spokesman for the movement known as “logical empiricism” or “logical positivism,” and the leading philosopher of the “Vienna Circle” of the late 1920s and early 1930s. He first became widely known for his 1928 book Der logische Aufbau der Welt ( The ...
Feb 24, 2020 · Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) was one of the best-known philosophers of the twentieth century. 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.
Einführung in die Symbolische Logik (Bevezetés a szimbolikus logikába), 1954. The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap (Rudolf Carnap filozófiája, Carnap itt az életrajzzal, és válaszokkal járult hozzá a könyvhöz), 1963. Philosophical Foundations of Physics (A fizika filozófiai alapjai), 1966. Two Essays on Entropy (Két esszé az ...
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Rudolf Carnap . Rudolf Carnap, (born May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Ger.—died Sept. 14, 1970, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.), German-born U.S. philosopher. He earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Jena in 1921. In 1926 he was invited to join the faculty of the University of Vienna ...
The Logical Syntax of Language appeared in 1934 (the modified English translation in 1937). It is Carnap’s best-known book, though its reception has been tortuous. The main features of the book itself and its reception history are discussed in the main entry (Section 5) on Carnap; the story of Carnap’s path from the Aufbau to the Syntax is ...
