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German-American philosopher (1891–1970)
Paul Rudolf Carnap was a German philosopher and logician 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Rudolf CarnapA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Rudolf Carnap’s Ideas in Philosophy of Language in the Context of Conceptual EngineeringInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Carnap and Twentieth-Century ThoughtThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Rudolf Carnap's `Theoretical Concepts in Science'Cited 46 times
- Go sideways: ExtensionalismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Logical positivismA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Rudolf Carnap's `Theoretical Concepts in Science'
Rudolf Carnap and Friedrich Bachmann. Über Extremalaxiome. Erkenntnis, vol. 6 (1936), pp. 166–188.
On Gödel's Way In: The Influence of Rudolf Carnap
Coming to America: Carnap, Reichenbach and the Great Intellectual Migration. Part I: Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap, logical empiricist
Homage to Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap. Logical foundations of probability. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago1950, xvii + 607 pp.
L’ingénierie philosophique de Rudolf Carnap
🆕 Influential since 2022
Rudolf Carnap’s Ideas in Philosophy of Language in the Context of Conceptual Engineering
: The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap
Steve Awodey & Greg Frost-Arnold (Eds.), 'Rudolf Carnap: Studies in Semantics'
Rudolf Carnap: el fin de la filosofía, el fin de la teoría del conocimiento
Analisis Intertekstual Kristeva; antara Metode Ilmiah Rudolf Carnap dan Pemahaman Hadis Muhammad Syuhudi Ismail
📚 Books worth reading
Carnap and Twentieth-Century ThoughtA. W. Carus · 2007
Foundations of logic and mathematicsRudolf Carnap · 1939
Carnap and twentieth-century thoughtA. W. Carus · 2007
Carnap's Construction of the WorldAlan W. Richardson · 1997
Carnap, Quine, and Putnam on Methods of InquiryGary Ebbs · 2017- 📕Four modern philosophersArne Naess · 1968
Language, truth, and knowledgeThomas Bonk · 2003
Carnap's Logical syntax of languagePierre Wagner · 1999
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Extensionalism Extensionalism, in the philosophy of language, in logic and semantics, is the view that all languages or at least all scientific languages should be extensional…
- Logical positivism Logical positivism (also known as logical empiricism or neo-positivism) was a philosophical movement rooted in the empiricist tradition, seeking to formulate…
- Vienna Circle The Vienna Circle (German: Wiener Kreis) of logical empiricism was a group of philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic…
- Verificationism Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is a doctrine in philosophy which asserts that a statement…
- Meaning and Necessity Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1947; enlarged edition 1956) is a book about semantics and modal logic by the philosopher…
- Jaakko Hintikka Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (/ˈhɪntɪkə/; Finnish: [ˈhintikːɑ]; 12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician…
- Richard Creath Richard Creath (born December 15, 1947) is an American philosopher of science particularly known for his work on the logical empiricism and philosophy…
- Carnap Papers The Rudolf Carnap Papers are a large collection of documents and photographs that record much of the life and career of German philosopher Rudolf Carnap…