Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Pierre Wagner

      Pages 1-4

3. Historical Situation of Carnap’s Ideal of Explication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Carnap’s Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science

      • Alan Richardson

      Pages 7-22

   3. Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions

      • Gottfried Gabriel

      Pages 23-33

   4. Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis

      • Juliet Floyd

      Pages 34-46

   5. Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung

      • Jacques Bouveresse

      Pages 47-62

   6. Carnap’s Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities : Between Enlightenment and Romanticism

      • Thomas Mormann

      Pages 63-78

4. Carnap’s Ideal of Explication: Critical Assessments and Examples

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Carnap’s Conception of Philosophy

      • Wolfgang Kienzler

      Pages 81-95

   3. Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique

      • Erich Reck

      Pages 96-116

   4. The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication

      • Thomas Uebel

      Pages 117-130

   5. Explicating ‘Analytic’

      • Steve Awodey

      Pages 131-143

   6. Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity

      • Philippe de Rouilhan

      Pages 144-158

5. The Contemporary Debate

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Before Explication

      • Richard Creath

      Pages 161-174

   3. Natural Languages, Formal Languages, and Explication

      • Pierre Wagner

      Pages 175-189

   4. Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics

      • Michael Friedman

      Pages 190-204

   5. The Perils of Pollyanna

      • Mark Wilson

      Pages 205-224

   6. Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and Its Critics

      • A. W. Carus

      Pages 225-239

The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.

• Age of Enlightenment
• bibliography
• concept
• construction
• critique
• dialectic
• enlightenment
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• metaphysics
• naturalism
• philosophy
• physics
• reconstruction
• Rudolf Carnap
• semantic

• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

  Pierre Wagner

STEVE AWODEY Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA JACQUES BOUVERESSE Professor at the Collège de France and a member of the IHPST (Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques), France A. W. CARUS Author of numerous papers on Carnap RICHARD CREATH President's Professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Arizona State University, USA JULIET FLOYD Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Boston University, USA MICHAEL FRIEDMAN Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, USA GOTTFRIED GABRIEL Professor at the University of Jena, Germany WOLFGANG KIENZLER teaches philosophy at the University of Jena, Germany THOMAS MORMANN Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain ERICH RECK Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, USA ALAN RICHARDSON Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada PHILIPPE DE ROUILHAN 'Directeur de Recherche' at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), France THOMAS UEBEL Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK MARK WILSON Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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