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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 October 2009
      13 December 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511570810
      9780521430081
      9780521052009
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570810
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.393kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Logic, Philosophy
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    This book is a major contribution to the history of analytic philosophy in general and of logical positivism in particular. It provides the first detailed and comprehensive study of Rudolf Carnap, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy. The focus of the book is Carnap's first major work: Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). It reveals tensions within the context of German epistemology and philosophy of science in the early twentieth century. Alan Richardson argues that Carnap's move to philosophy of science in the 1930s was largely an attempt to dissolve the tension in his early epistemology. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on the history of twentieth-century philosophy. It will be of particular importance to historians of analytic philosophy, philosophers of science, and historians of science.

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    ‘… an intensive examination of virtually all of Carnap’s earlier writings … Richardson has very helpfully mined this material, exhibiting a rare combination of historical and philosophical insight. I believe that the book will therefore be indispensable for all future work on Carnap.’

    Michael Friedman - author of Kant and the Exact Sciences

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