The primary proponent of the "covering law" theory of explanation and of the paradoxes of confirmation, Carl G. Hempel was among the most important philosophers of science of the twentieth century. With Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach he was a...

Hempel, Carl Gustav(1905 36. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Selected Philosophical Essays: Early and Late, edited by Richard C. Jeffrey. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in...

Carl Gustav Hempel (born January 8 1905 in Oranienburg, Germany died November 9 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure in 20th-century logical empiricism. He is especially well-known for his articulation of the...