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Rudolf Carnap

German philosopher and logician (1891-1970) · Germany · Academics · Died at 79

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He tried to rebuild philosophy from scratch using only logic and what could be verified - an attempt to purge metaphysics of everything that couldn't be measured or proved.

AcademicsAcademicPhilosophyGermanyEurope20th Century

A life in dates

1970Died14 September 19701963“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance.”In their wordsRudolf Carnap, as quoted in The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap (1963) by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 25, and in Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of

1952Guggenheim FellowshipAward1950“After the new forms are introduced into the language, it is possible to formulate with their help internal questions and possible answers to them.”In their wordsCh. 3. What does acceptance of a kind of entities mean?

1937“Logic is not concerned with human behavior in the same sense that physiology, psychology, and social sciences are concerned with it.”In their wordsRudolf Carnap (1937) cited in: Irving J. Lee (1967) The Language of Wisdom and Folly: Background Readings in Semantics. International

1934“In order to determine whether or not one sentence is a consequence of another, no reference need be made to the meaning of the sentences.”In their wordsp. 258

“Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification.”In their wordsp. 42

1929“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”In their wordsRudolf Carnap (1929) from the Vienna Circle manifesto.

1891Born18 May 1891

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  1. When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance.

    1963, Rudolf Carnap, as quoted in The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap (1963) by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 25, and in Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of, Own words

  2. After the new forms are introduced into the language, it is possible to formulate with their help internal questions and possible answers to them.

    1950, Ch. 3. What does acceptance of a kind of entities mean?, Own words

  3. A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context.

    1947, p. 125, Own words

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship1952

About this person

Paul Rudolf Carnap was born in Germany on 18 May 1891. He became a major figure in the Vienna Circle, the group that pushed logical positivism - the idea that meaningful statements must be either empirically verifiable or logical truths. He worked in Europe until 1935, then moved to the United States, where he continued refining his project of making philosophy rigorous, formal, and scientific. He died on 14 September 1970.

Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1891 to 1970 · aged 79

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