Richard Creath

Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism - Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook Richard Creath 2012 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Text in English and German. Table of Contents: Editorial MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine.- GEORG SCHIEMER, Carnap s Untersuchungen: Logicism, Formal Semantics, and Metatheory.- MATTHIAS NEUBER, Realism as a Problem of Language From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila.- RICHARD CREATH, Analyticity in the Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Really Necessary?.- CHRISTIAN DAMBOCK, Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: German Empiricism in the Aufbau.- CHRISTOPH LIMBECK-LILIENAU, Carnap s Encounter with Pragmatism.- THOMAS MORMANN, Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond.- THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap, Philosophy, and Politics in its Broadest Sense .- GENERAL PART.- REVIEW ESSAYS.- THOMAS MORMANN, A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933.- JOHN MICHAEL, Emergence still trendy after all these years.- REVIEWS.- Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien New York: Springer, 2010 (Massimo Ferrari).- Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. (Gunther Sandner).- Giovanni Vailati. Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Edited by Claudia Arrighi, Paola Cantu, Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford: CSLI, 2010. (Paolo Palmieri) The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. (Miles MacLeod) Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz ausserordentlicher Tragweite. Schrodingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. (Wolfgang Reiter) Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Index of Names. "Jacket Description/Back: 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."Publisher Marketing: ThisInstitute'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. "

Contributor Bio:  Creath, Richard Michael Friedman is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. He is editor and translator of Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004).