Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 16)

This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​ Scientific Philosophy From Helmholtz To Carnap And Quine / Michael Friedman -- Carnap's Untersuchungen : Logicism, Formal Aximatics, And Metatheory / Georg Schiemer -- Realism As A Problem Of Language : From Carnap To Reichenbach And Kaila / Matthias Neuber -- Analyticity In The Theoretical Language : Is A Different Account Really Necessary? / Richard Creath -- Rudolf Carnap And Wilhelm Dilthey : German Empiricism In The Aufbau / Christian Damböck -- Carnap's Encounter With Pragmatism / Christoph Limbeck-lilienau -- Toward A Theory Of The Pragmatic A Priori : From Carnap To Lewis And Beyond / Thomas Mormann -- Carnap, Philosophy, And Politics In Its Broadest Sense / Thomas Uebel -- A Virtual Debate In Exile : Cassirer And The Vienna Circle After 1933 / Thomas Mormann -- Emergence : Still Trendy After All These Years / John Michael -- Reviews. Anne Siegetsleitner (ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte Und Moral / Massimo Ferrari -- Matthew Eve And Christopher Burke (eds.), Otto Neurath, From Hieroglyphics To Isotype : A Visual Autobiography / Günther Sandner -- Giovanni Vailati, Logic And Pragmatism : Selected Essays By Giovanni Vailati / Paolo Palmieri -- The Significance Of The Hypothetical In The Natural Sciences / Miles Macleod -- Karl Von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung Von Ganz Außerordentlicher Tragweite : Schrödingers Briefwechsel Zur Wellenmechanik Und Zum Katzenparadox / Wolfgang L. Reiter. Richard Creath, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine....Pages 1-11 Carnap’s Untersuchungen : Logicism, Formal Axiomatics, and Metatheory....Pages 13-36 Realism as a Problem of Language – From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila....Pages 37-56 Analyticity in the Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Really Necessary?....Pages 57-66 Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: “German” Empiricism in the Aufbau ....Pages 67-88 Carnap’s Encounter with Pragmatism....Pages 89-111 Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond....Pages 113-132 Carnap, Philosophy and “Politics in its Broadest Sense”....Pages 133-148 A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933....Pages 149-167 Emergence – still trendy after all these years....Pages 169-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-203 This Institute's Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.ai A collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars. The volume shows the rich variety of Carnap's concerns and his place within important intellectual traditions that shape our thinking even today