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Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
Series: - Studien zur Österreichischen Philosophie, Volume: 50
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close collaboration, and personal friendship, but also by controversies that were as heated as they were rarely fought out in public. Carnap and Neurath were, in the words of Olga Hahn-Neurath, "like-minded opponents". The essays in this volume deal with these key thinkers of logical empiricism from different perspectives, shedding light on the complex development of one of the most influential philosophical currents of the twentieth century in the midst of dark times.
Christian Damböck, University of Vienna, is a researcher on the History of Philosophy of Science. He has published on the philosophy of Rudolf Carnap and other topics related to the Vienna Circle.
Johannes Friedl, University of Graz, is a researcher with a focus on the Vienna Circle. He has co-edited two volumes of the Moritz-Schlick-Gesamtausgabe and has published a monograph and several articles on that topic.
Ulf Höfer, University of Graz, has co-edited five volumes of Otto Neurath's Schriften. He works on 19th- and 20th-century Austrian philosophy and is in charge of the archive and collections of the Forschungsstelle für österreichische Philosophie, Graz.
Johannes Friedl, University of Graz, is a researcher with a focus on the Vienna Circle. He has co-edited two volumes of the Moritz-Schlick-Gesamtausgabe and has published a monograph and several articles on that topic.
Ulf Höfer, University of Graz, has co-edited five volumes of Otto Neurath's Schriften. He works on 19th- and 20th-century Austrian philosophy and is in charge of the archive and collections of the Forschungsstelle für österreichische Philosophie, Graz.
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1
Prehistory
1 Between Pietism and Herbartianism Archaeological Vestiges in Carnap’s Thought
Michael Heidelberger
2 Neurath’s Anti-correspondentism and Avenarius
Lucas Baccarat Silva Negrão de Campos
3 Carnap and Neurath’s Electromagnetic Ways to the Scientific World-Conception
Jordi Cat
4 Reductionism, Structuralism, and Carnap’s Aufbau
Thomas Uebel
Part 2
Physicalism, Protocol-Sentences, and Semantics
5 Sources of Linguistic Physicalism. Carnap’s and Neurath’s Views on Autopsychological Sentences, Private Language and the Nature of Experience
Gergely Ambrus
6 Conceptions of Protocol Sentences in Neurath and Carnap and the Bipartite Metatheory Conception
Joseph Bentley
7 Caught in the Middle? Empiricism, Epistemology, and Metaphilosophy in the Development of Carnap’s Views on Protocol Sentences
Johannes Friedl
8 Carnap and Neurath on Truth, Meta-Language and Semantics
Ulf Höfer
Part 3
Contexts and Relations
9 Truth in Science and Everyday Life Bertrand Russell’s Theories of Meaning and Truth as Controversial Issues between Carnap and Neurath
Hans-Joachim Dahms
10 Carnap and Neurath as Critics of the Tractatus
Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau
11 Isotype, Logical Empiricism, and the Scientific World-Conception
Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner
12 Kurt Gödel in the Carnap Diaries and Carnap-Neurath Correspondence – a New Look at his Personality and Scholarship
Friedrich Stadler
13 Neurath on “Plato-Hitler” and the British Scene of Irritation
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Index
Introduction
Part 1
Prehistory
1 Between Pietism and Herbartianism Archaeological Vestiges in Carnap’s Thought
Michael Heidelberger
2 Neurath’s Anti-correspondentism and Avenarius
Lucas Baccarat Silva Negrão de Campos
3 Carnap and Neurath’s Electromagnetic Ways to the Scientific World-Conception
Jordi Cat
4 Reductionism, Structuralism, and Carnap’s Aufbau
Thomas Uebel
Part 2
Physicalism, Protocol-Sentences, and Semantics
5 Sources of Linguistic Physicalism. Carnap’s and Neurath’s Views on Autopsychological Sentences, Private Language and the Nature of Experience
Gergely Ambrus
6 Conceptions of Protocol Sentences in Neurath and Carnap and the Bipartite Metatheory Conception
Joseph Bentley
7 Caught in the Middle? Empiricism, Epistemology, and Metaphilosophy in the Development of Carnap’s Views on Protocol Sentences
Johannes Friedl
8 Carnap and Neurath on Truth, Meta-Language and Semantics
Ulf Höfer
Part 3
Contexts and Relations
9 Truth in Science and Everyday Life Bertrand Russell’s Theories of Meaning and Truth as Controversial Issues between Carnap and Neurath
Hans-Joachim Dahms
10 Carnap and Neurath as Critics of the Tractatus
Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau
11 Isotype, Logical Empiricism, and the Scientific World-Conception
Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner
12 Kurt Gödel in the Carnap Diaries and Carnap-Neurath Correspondence – a New Look at his Personality and Scholarship
Friedrich Stadler
13 Neurath on “Plato-Hitler” and the British Scene of Irritation
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Index
This book will be of interest to libraries, specialists, advanced students, and non-academic readers in the fields of philosophy, history, and sociology.