Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism
Editors: Wagner, P., Beaney, Michael (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Carnap’s Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Pages 7-22
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Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions
Pages 23-33
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Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis
Pages 34-46
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Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung
Pages 47-62
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism
- Editors
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- P. Wagner
- Michael Beaney
- Series Title
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-37974-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230379749
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-28259-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32846-8
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5994
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 263
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