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LOS REVISIONISTAS DE CARNAP Y LA LÓGICA DE LA CIENCIA
Prometeus: Filosofia em Revista, 2012 Nos últimos anos, vários autores ‘revisionistas’ tentaram reinterpretar a obra do maisrepresentativo dos filósofos do movimento denominado ‘positivismo lógico’: Rudolf Carnap.Surpreendentemente, surge nos textos destes autores a imagem de um Carnap não ...
Sergio Hugo Menna
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Carnap and Lewis on the External World
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2014 This paper compares the claims about our knowledge of the external world presented by Rudolf Carnap, in the book known as the Aufbau, to those of Clarence Irving Lewis, in Mind and the World-Order.
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha
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Carnap’s Structuralist Thesis [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract This chapter investigates Carnap’s structuralism in his philosophy of mathematics of the 1920s and early 1930s. His approach to mathematics is based on a genuinely structuralist thesis, namely that axiomatic theories describe abstract structures or the structural properties of their objects.
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The Question of Referentiality
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
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Gödel Meets Carnap: A Prototypical Discourse on Science and Religion
Zygon, 1997 Modern science, based on the laws of physics, claims validity for all events in space and time. However, it also reveals its own limitations, such as the indeterminacy of quantum physics, the limits of decidability, and, presumably, limits of ...
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Schlick and Carnap on Definitions
, 2023 In the 1920s, Carnap and Schlick both made an important use of definitions in their main publications: Schlick, in his Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (1918, 2 nd ed. 1925) and Carnap in Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928, mostly written by 1925). This paper first provides an analysis of the kinds of definitions which are distinguished in these books and a ...
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The Additive Logic of Epistemic Reasons: An Axiomatic Account
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article argues for a system of axioms that is meant to capture the logic of normative reasons for belief. The system concerns a primitive direct‐reason relation, a defined doxastic‐reason relation, and a primitive function for the revision of rational belief by reasons.
Hannes Leitgeb
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, 2017 A brief introduction to the life and key work of Rudolf Carnap with special attention to his work on inductive ...
Gage, Logan Paul
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Schlick, Carnap and Feigl on the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]
, 2022 Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap and Herbert Feig are the most prominent of the positivists to formulate views on the mind-body problem (aside from Hempel’s one-off treatment in 1935).
Crawford, Sean
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, 2022 Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was among the most important representatives of interwar European philosophy as well as of postwar American analytic philosophy.
Carnap, Rudolf
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