Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of “methodological solipsism” and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, he asserts that many philosophical problems are meaningless.
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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is recognized as one of the few great philosophers of the twentieth century, a leading member of the Vienna Circle and one of the founding heroes of analytic philosophy.
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Even though Logical Positivism itself failed as a philosophical project, the effects of this empirical project still ripple through the philosophical world today. One cannot come to an understanding of modern analytic philosophy, such as the philosophies of W.V.O. Quine, without dealing with the theories of the Logical Positivists, such as Rudolf Carnap. This work is one of the cornerstones of Positivistic philosophy; it is 'manifesto' of what the Positivists wanted in a philosophical theory. By utilizing logic and radical reductionism, Carnap wished to show how one's knowledge of the world can be reduced to sense data and how our talk about the external world is built up from our immediate sense data. This work is concise and clearly formulated; its goals clearly stated and the workings of the logical mechinary vividly shown. I would recommend this book to one wanting to learn more about Logical Positivism.
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The present investigations aim to establish a "constructional system", that is, an epistemic-logical system of objects or concepts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heteropsychological objects, constructional definition, intersubjective correspondence, two elementary experiences, same nominatum, autopsychological domain, quasi constituents, autopsychological objects, founded relation extensions, most important object types, constructional transformation, constructional language, quasi analysis, accompanying object representation, coextensive propositional function, dispensable relative, fictitious constructive operations, constructional system, autopsychological basis, similarity circles, visual field places, new basic relations, dispensable constituent, nonreal objects, unanalyzable units New!
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heteropsychological objects, constructional definition, intersubjective correspondence, two elementary experiences, same nominatum, autopsychological domain, quasi constituents, autopsychological objects, founded relation extensions, most important object types, constructional transformation, constructional language, quasi analysis, accompanying object representation, coextensive propositional function, dispensable relative, fictitious constructive operations, constructional system, autopsychological basis, similarity circles, visual field places, new basic relations, dispensable constituent, nonreal objects, unanalyzable units New!
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- A Bibliography of Symbolic Logic by Alonzo Church on page 8
- Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead in Back Matter
- The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell in Back Matter
- Mysticism and Logic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell in Back Matter
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (Western Philosophy & Religion Series) by Alfred Whitehead in Back Matter
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- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) by Michael Morris on page 215, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality by Carl G. Hempel on page 272, and page 393
- Mind, Brain, Behavior: The Mind-Body Problem and the Philosophy of Psychology by Martin Carrier in Back Matter
- A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by A. P. Martinich on page 107
- Knowledge And Civilization by Barry Allen in Back Matter
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