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Logical Syntax of Language
Rudolf Carnap
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Available for the first time in 20 years, here is the Rudolf Carnap's famous "principle of tolerance" by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of language and logic. In The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap explains how his entire theory of language structure came to him like a vision when he was ill. He postulates that concepts of the theory of logic are purely syntactical and therefore can be formulated in logical syntax.
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The Logical Syntax of Language (Open Court Classics).......2007-02-12
The front cover has been cut and demaged. However, as Amazon asserted that this was not their fault and asked me to pay the expensive international shipping fee if I really want to exchange for a new one. Absolutely nonsense.
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- Changing social dynamics and ways of thought
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A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger
Michael Friedman
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Philosophy is deeply divided between two hostile camps: analytic philosophy (dominant in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries) and continental philosophy (dominant in Germany and France). In this volume, Friedman explores the common origin of analytic and continental philosophy, showing how social and political events intertwined and influenced philosophy during the early twentieth-century.
Friedman gives a general overview of the philosophical issues of the period, paying special attention to the relationships among three key twentieth-century philosophers: Rudolf Carnap, Ernst Cassirer, and Martin Heidegger. Already polarized by their philosophical disagreements, the approaches of Carnap and Heidegger-now practiced largely in isolation from one another-were further split apart by the rise of Naziism and the resulting emigration of all influential German-speaking philosophers except for Heidegger. While the radical directions taken by Carnap (analytic philosophy) and Heidegger (post-modernism) have been hugely influential, Friedman enters a plea on behalf of Cassirer's "middle way" as a bridge between the dead ends now reached in both analytic and continental philosophy.
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A much needed contribution.......2006-10-29
The history of early 20th century philosophy is woefully little known these days, even by philosophers. Friedman provides an extremely detailed and well-documented account of the early evolutions of the views of probably the two most influential German philosophers of the century, Carnap and Heidegger. He pays attention to the connections both philosophers saw between their philosophies and both politics and everyday life, connections of which most admirers of Carnap are unaware, and connections which most admirers of Heidegger would prefer to ignore. Cassirer is of course not as influential a figure as either Carnap or Heidegger, but reconciliation projects are generally viewed as less exciting, and Friedman makes a plausible case that Cassirer's position sought to navigate a middle ground between the then rising Positivist and Existentialist movements.
Cassirer is also important to the overall picture because he is the most avowedly Kantian of the three philosophers Friedman examines, though another valuable contribution of this work is to highlight the heavy influence of the early 20th century German neo-Kantian schools on both Carnap and Heidegger (the Kantian influence on Carnap is also discussed in Friedman's book on Logical Positivism).
Friedman himself seems to hope to encourage more modern dialogue between the analytic and the continental traditions which are the heirs of Carnap and Heidegger respectively. This is of course no easy task, but while as an analytic partisan myself my response to the discussion of Heidegger's views tended to be along the lines of "so that's why the continentals have gone so horribly wrong," (not because of Friedman's presentation, I think; he presents all three philosophers he discusses quite favorably), greater mutual understanding is surely a necessary beginning, even if prospects for any kind of agreement are far off.
Changing social dynamics and ways of thought.......2002-10-11
A Parting Of The Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, And Heidegger by Michael Friedman (Ruth N. Halls Professor of Arts and Humanities, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University) is a informative, scholarly study in the division of philosophy into the analytic tradition (held widely in the Anglophone world), and the continental philosophic tradition of Europe. Examining how this split took place just before and during the 1930's, A Parting Of The Ways focuses upon a pivotal 1929 debate between two respected German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. Rudolf Carnap, who represented the Vienna Circle of logical positivists. A Parting Of The Ways is an intrinsically fascinating study of changing social dynamics and ways of thought, and the negative impact that the rise of Hitler had on philosophy schools as a whole and German philosophers in particular. A Parting Of The Ways is an invaluable contribution to Philosophy Studies academic reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy (Open Court Classics)
Rudolf Carnap
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Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of "methodological solipsism" and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, he asserts that many philosophical problems are meaningless.
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- Not only for specialists
- Carnapian survivals and computerized successes
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- a great introduction to the philosophy of science
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Rudolf Carnap
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Stimulating, thought-provoking text by one of the 20th century's most creative philosophers clearly and discerningly makes accessible such topics as probability, measurement and quantitative language, structure of space, causality and determinism, theoretical laws and concepts, and much more.
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Review by LP.......2006-11-05
A cultural cornerstone. Must be read by those who are interested in science and its history.
Not only for specialists.......2006-05-08
The value of this book is that it contains a summary of the views of Carnap in his last years, but it is readable not only for specialists. The "introduction" really menas that it is not so technical. You may read this book if you are interested in special relativity and some philosophy, or if you are curious about the scientific method and like to think abot it.
Carnapian survivals and computerized successes.......2005-05-22
Positivism is dead. Most of the philosophy in this book is now obsolete, but it has relevance today following the passing of the brief but popular anti-analytical Kuhnian fad.
Carnap rejected the idea of a machine for creating theories, which reference unobservables. And in his Logical foundations of probability (1950) he concluded that there cannot be an "inductive machine", i.e. a computer system, into which the scientist can input all the relevant observation sentences, and then get an output consisting of a system of empirical laws that explain the observed phenomena. He only believed that given observation e and hypothesis h, there can be an inductive machine which will mechanically determine the logical probability or degree of confirmation of h on the basis of e.
It is regrettable that the computer age had not begun thirty years earlier, because Carnap's linguistic-analysis constructionalist approach and his idea of semantical systems could have found evident application in contemporary computational philosophy of science - of course with large and important modifications to accommodate both contemporary pragmatism and modern systems design.
THere have been many computerized discovery systems, sometimes called "artificial intelligence systems", as found in Herbert Simon;s book Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes. I created a discovery system for social science, and found similarities between Carnap's ideas and the pragmatic concepts in my system design. A summary of these modifications and similarities discussed in my books titled Introduction to Metascience and History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science is as follows:
1. Unlike Carnap scientists never use the Russellian symbolic logic for the expression of their theories. The object-language theories constructed by my discovery system are expressed as mathematical equations of the type actually used in the relevant science.
2. The computer language constituting the discovery system is the metalanguage expressing a mechanized generative grammar in the program.
3. The semantical rules that describe the semantical interpretation of the object-language statements are sentences that are both analytic and synthetic like Quine's analytical hypotheses or discursive postulates. They might also be viewed as similar to Carnap's reduction sentences, which he says determine only "part" of the meaning of theoretical terms.
4. The state descriptions are the computer system input and output expressed in the object language, and they reveal the semantical changes produced by the discovery system.
5. The theory of information is Yu Shreider's semantical metatheory, and the state descriptions are identified with Shreider's concept of a thesaurus. Then the amount of information communicated depends on the degree of transformation between his initial thesaurus and the outputted theory that must transform his thesaurus for the user to understand the new theory, and the psychological resistance to a new theory is large if the amount of information communicated is large.
Had history been kinder to Carnap, I believe that notwithstanding his positivist pessimism about a theory-making "inductive machine", he would have contributed to computational philosophy of science, perhaps anticipating Herbert Simon's Stahl and Dalton systems.
Even more significantly computational philosophy of science might have taken the linguistic-analysis turn, which I prefer, instead of its now popular psychologistic turn, which I think is misconceived. I believe that today's computational philosophy of science would be better served were discovery systems construed as language-processing constructionalist systems producing new semantical state descriptions, and that the legacy of Carnap can contribute some needed perspective for twenty-first century philosophy of science.
Readers are invited to Google my book at my web site philsci with free downloads.
Thomas J. Hickey
A unique product of a unique collaberation.......2004-07-07
Is this book still relevant, despite being a bit old? The answer is
an unqualified YES. Why is this book the best introduction to the
philosophy of science ever written? Because it is the result of a
collaberation between Rudolf Carnap (a philosophical giant) and Martin
Gardner--the celebrated columnest who gave us so many years of
"Mathematical games," during Scientific American's golden years.
Because it was co-written by a professional writer of popular
mathematics, it is probably the only philosophy of science book which
can be read and understood by the interested lay person. But because
it is based on a series of lecture notes from one of the worlds
all-time great philosophers of science, it doesn't "wimp out" on the
technical level. If you read it you will be brought to the forefront
of philosophy of science, at least as understood by the later logical
positivists.
In short, a remarkable collaberation by two men who were at the top of
their game. Thank God for Dover. For ten bucks you can buy a priceless
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a great introduction to the philosophy of science.......2002-11-29
This is perhaps the only book in which Carnap is almost invariably informal. It is a remarkably clear introduction to some important topics in the philosophy of science: the nature of scientific laws, probability, scientific measurement, the structure of space, causality and determinism, theoretical concepts and laws, and a last chapter called "beyond determinism". The point where Carnap gets a bit formal, sections 26-28, is boring and absolutely out of date; his approach to analyticity is certainly not the best available. As for the rest, Carnap's conceptions are generally reliable (although it should be observed that his "logical conception" programme for probability was a complete failure). The sections I enjoyed most are those which deal with the structure of space. Carnap is highly proficient there (Carnap's doctoral dissertation was called "Der Raum") and his philosophical observations are always lucid and precise.
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Logical foundations of probability
Rudolf Carnap
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Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications
Rudolf Carnap
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Clear, comprehensive, intermediate introduction to logical languages, applications of symbolic logic to physics, mathematics, biology.
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A real bargain by a true master.......2003-05-10
Rudolf Carnap was one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, and the only student of Frege's worth thinking about. But what a student!
This is his intro text, a doubtful first text, but full of insight for those who already know some logic. Carnap trained as a mathematician; surprisingly, his text is of value mainly for philosophers. For instance, this is the ONLY undergrad logic text I know that grapples with the intension-extension dichotomy, with the Carnap-Morris syntax-semantics-pragmatics trichotomy. Metatheory is nonexistent, and Carnap's notion of proof is emphatically too casual for my taste.
The book is also dated. In its treatment of first order logic, Carnap is a bit too loyal to Principia Mathematica. His axioms are a bit pedantic, a bit inelegant for my taste. (Quantified formulae are much easier to work with than Carnap and his contemporaries realized; all you need to do with quantified variables is to instantiate them! See the "main method" of Quine's Methods of Logic.) You won't learn any natural deduction, truth trees, or Gentzen sequents here. You most definitely won't learn anything about recursion. But the exposition incorporates thoughout Carnap's greatest discovery: his formal theory of semantics. You will also learn more about the logic of relations than you will in any other undergrad text. You will be given an idea of the mathematical power of logic (infinity, continuity, numbers). You will even be introduced to the lambda calculus, Alonzo Church's great discovery. Carnap was comfortable with the notion of a predicate letter like few logicians since.
Part II of the book is without parallel anywhere: an introduction to a very wide range of axiomatic theories, presented as interesting applications of modern formal logic. This is a wonderful reference for ZF set theory, Peano axioms, Tarski's axioms for the reals, the Hausdorff- Bohnenblust axioms for topology, axioms for geometry, space-time, and mirabile dictu, even mereology. Other texts present at most the first 2 items on this list.
good books.......2000-08-31
It is my experience as a reader that good books are always books that have lots of examples because they make our understanding easier. Therefore, if this math book has examples in it, then it must mean it is very good.So I recommend that whenever you have a chance to see it that you buy it.
Carnap and Vienna Circle.......1997-01-28
Rudolf Carnap is the one of the most famous analytic philosophers of 20th Century and he is one of the leaders of Vienna Circle. Learning Symbolic Logic from this classical book would be enthusiastic
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The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 11 (Library of Living Philosophers)
Rudolf Carnap , and Paul Arthur Schilpp
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Most important resource on Carnap.......2006-05-08
This book contains Carnap's philosophycal autobiography, a lot of articles about the philosophy of Canrap, and Carnap's answer on them.
It is highly valuable to read contemporary fresh philosophers' view on Carnap, and also read his reaction on some critique.
A lot of sharp questions raised, and sharp answers as well.
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- Interesting collection
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Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work (Centennial Books)
W. V. Quine , and Rudolf Carnap
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Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length--and over a long period of time--on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philosophic discussions. Carnap (1891-1970) was a founder and leader of the logical positivist school. The younger Quine (1908-) began as his staunch admirer but diverged from him increasingly over questions in the analysis of meaning and the justification of belief. That they remained close, relishing their differences through years of correspondence, shows their stature both as thinkers and as friends. The letters are presented here, in full, for the first time.
The substantial introduction by Richard Creath offers a lively overview of Carnap's and Quine's careers and backgrounds, allowing the nonspecialist to see their writings in historical and intellectual perspective. Creath also provides a judicious analysis of the philosophical divide between them, showing how deep the issues cut into the discipline, and how to a large extent they remain unresolved.
Dear Carnap, I enclose a copy of a paper which I am ready to send off for publication. . . . I am anxious to have you look this over as soon as possible, to see whether you have reason to suppose the system contradictory: for it looks dangerous.
Dear Quine: I read your paper very carefully and with the highest interest. . . . So far, I do not see any contradiction in the system itself . . . but I share your feeling that the whole looks rather dangerous.
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Interesting collection.......2006-05-08
This book is very interesting if you are interested in Carnap. You get a lot of the personality of Carnap, and some of his views. It is a real experience to read this after a long research in the philosophy of Carnap.
Other may find the correspondence also interesting just because it contains some views and personal experiences of a philosopher. If you are on such thing, you may buy it as well.
An excellent book.......2003-01-08
This book, edited by Richard Creath, is valuable both as a biographical work on the lives of Carnap and Quine, and as an resource for scholars interested in the Carnap-Quine debates (and the history of 20th century analytic philosophy more generally). The correspondence, which constitutes most of the book, provides a nice glimpse into the personal and academic friendship between Carnap and Quine: a friendship that developed from their first meeting in the 1930's till Carnap's untimely death in 1970. The book also includes a useful 43 page introduction by Creath focusing on the Carnap-Quine debates on analyticity. Previously unpublished manuscripts, i.e., Quine's "Three Lectures on Carnap" and Carnap's "Quine on Analyticity," are valuable resources for philosophers interested in the Carnap-Quine debates. The book concludes appropriately with Quine's "Homeage to Carnap," a personal tribute to his mentor. Overall, Creath does a superb editorial job and the resulting book is a pleasure to read.
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Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena (Publications of the Archive of Scientific Philosophy Series)
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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is considered the pioneer of logical positivism, but his work was thought to have been repudiated. Recently he has been undergoing a reappraisal, and this book of essays by leading philosophers, logicians, and art historians attempts to return Carnap to his rightful place. The philosopher's early days as a utopianist, the root of his thought in neo-Kantianism, his social and political activism - all are explored in these important essays.
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Articles on Carnap.......2006-05-08
This book is a collection of articles on Carnap. Interesting for specialists. You should consider the year of publication, the authors and the table of content, if you are interested in it.
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- Cassirer, Ernst
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Church, Alonzo
- Cioran, Emile
- Cixous, Hélène
- Cocchiarella, Nino
- Confucius
- Davidson, Donald
- Debord, Guy
- Deleuze, Gilles
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