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  • Series: Open Court Classics
  • Paperback: 364 pages
  • Publisher: Open Court (August 5, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812695232
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812695236
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.9 x 10.1 inches
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By Kiel N. Moreland on July 7, 2008
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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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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was a German-born philosopher 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. He wrote many books, such as Meaning and Necessity, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, etc.

[NOTE: page numbers below refer to a 364-page paperback edition.]

He wrote in the Preface to the second edition, “[Logical Structure] was my first larger book, the first attempt to bring into systematic form my earlier philosophical reflections. The first version was written in the years 1922-1925… The main problem concerns the possibility of the rational reconstruction of the concepts of all fields of knowledge on the basis of concepts that refer to the immediately given. By rational reconstruction is here meant the searching out of new definitions for old concepts… I had realized… the fundamental importance of mathematics for the formation of a system of knowledge and… its purely logical, formal character to which it owes its independence from the contingencies of the real world. These insights formed the basis of my book.
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*Der logische Aufbau der Welt* was one of Rudolf Carnap's first ventures into print in 1928, and it crystalizes the views of the Vienna Circle at a time when they thought -- as Bertrand Russell did for many years -- that the basic building-blocks of a scientific view of the world were sense-impressions, collated by the rational experiencing subject into patterns of greater and greater scope and rigor. Carnap, Schlick et al. didn't stick with it but this doctrine (which has a high level of plausibility for the inward-looking philosophy beginner) is worth exploring, and Carnap was here one of the first to directly apply the machinery of formal logic to a problem outside the philosophy of mathematics or that of language; the term "analytic" was not abroad at that time, but Carnap did as much as anyone to form the self-understanding of analytic philosophy with work like this and the more programmatic "Pseudoproblems in Philosophy" also included in this volume.

Beginning with ordinary predicate logic and a primitive relation which applies when two stimuli are "similar", Carnap develops a formal epistemology of scientific knowing that solves the "problem of the external world" and some other major problems to a first approximation. This sort of "phenomenalism" was viewed as the oldest of hat for decades, but the *Aufbau* is back on the agenda as today's metaphysicians and epistemologists want to isolate, not appearances, but the sense of reasonable certainty we have in drawing certain conclusions about them (David Chalmers' recent book *Constructing the World* is explicitly indebted to the *Aufbau*, indeed it advertises itself as such in its introduction and implicitly by title). Thusly, you have reasons from the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy alike to take a look at this; the translation by Rolf A. George is serviceable, and Open Court has done everybody a service by picking up this out-of-print title from Cal.
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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was a German-born philosopher 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. He wrote many books, such as Meaning and Necessity, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, etc.

He wrote in the Preface to the second edition, “[Logical Structure] was my first larger book, the first attempt to bring into systematic form my earlier philosophical reflections. The first version was written in the years 1922-1925… The main problem concerns the possibility of the rational reconstruction of the concepts of all fields of knowledge on the basis of concepts that refer to the immediately given. By rational reconstruction is here meant the searching out of new definitions for old concepts… I had realized… the fundamental importance of mathematics for the formation of a system of knowledge and… its purely logical, formal character to which it owes its independence from the contingencies of the real world. These insights formed the basis of my book. Later on, through conversations in [Moritz] Schlick’s circle in Vienna and through the influence of Wittgenstein’s ideas they developed into the mode of thought which characterized the ‘Vienna Circle.
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