Titlebook: Carnap‘s Ideal of Explication and Naturalism; Pierre Wagner Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

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Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questionsare treated as theoretical questions and not as questions of pragmatic decision. The same already holds for the question of whether there exists an external world (independently of the subject of knowledge) or not. This position is very similar to that of Heidegger. The reason for this similarity is

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Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysisnalysis of computability for the foundations of mathematics and physics, artificial intelligence, and the very architecture of science were to be developed and widely appreciated only after Carnap’s death. Perhaps more significant, once Carnap had developed the position articulated in . his principl

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Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärungsomething of the original Enlightenment spirit, thought the novelist Robert Musil; they provide examples of a spiritual daring that has otherwise fallen by the wayside. ‘We others’, Musil regretted, ‘have let our courage drop since the time of the Enlightenment. Some small bungle was enough to get u

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Carnap’s , : Between Enlightenment and Romanticisms considered a dogmatic doctrine of the past. In the last twenty years or so, a growing number of scholars have been engaged in the task of undermining this picture. The more one engages with Carnap’s real thought, these scholars contend, the more one finds open-mindedness, tolerance, and pragmatism

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Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique., of the view that his first major work, . (1928), represents a crude form of positivism or the culmination of classical empiricisms. Careful historical studies of the . have, instead, brought to light its neo-Kantian and Husserlian roots, thus leading to a much subtler, more complicated story abou

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Explicating ‘Analytic’Indeed, it was perhaps the difficulty in nailing down just this notion that first led to the conception of explication. Thus it may be seen as a paradigm case. However, Carnap’s work on the problem of the nature of logical truth is of course also of systematic and theoretical importance, as it provi

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Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticityguished Carnap scholars, his work in semantics still does not seem to be understood well and Carnap continues to be, just as in the good old days, misunderstood, caricatured, accused of sins he did not commit. One good example is a thesis defended not so very long ago by the champion of the ‘model t

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