The American philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was the most prominent representative of the school of logical positivism, sometimes called logical empiricism. Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany. From 1910 to 1914 he...

The German philosopher Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany. He died on September 14, 1970, at Santa Monica, California. Between 1910 and 1914, Carnap studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the Universities of Jena and...

Rudolf Carnap was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a major exponent of logical empiricism. The Vienna Circle was a group of scientists and philosophers who met in Vienna from the early 1920s to the late 1930s. Led by Moritz Schlick, Professor...

. 1891–1970. German logical POSITIVIST, born in Ronsdorf, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He migrated to America where he worked mainly in Chicago and Los Angeles. He tried to show that METAPHYSICS arose through our confusing talk about the...

Carnap, Rudolf(1891–1970) Rudolf Carnap was the philosophically most articulate member of the Vienna Circle in the 1920s and 1930s, and later of the movement that came to be known in the United States as logical empiricism. During his lifetime,...

Synonymity "Synonymity" has been a major topic in philosophy since the publication of Rudolf Carnap's Meaning and Necessity in 1947, though it was discussed earlier in the writings of W. V. Quine and C. I. Lewis. After Quine and...

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It would be too simple to assert that the root of the "Continental/Analytic divide" grew out from the "dispute" between Heidegger and Carnap. There are other, earlier candidates for this "divide" through which significant topoi separated off into differing currents of philosophy.1 Roberta Lanfredini2...

CARNAP'S CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD: THE AUFBAU AND THE EMERGENCE OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM. By ALAN W. RICHARDSON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 242. Faced with anti-foundationalist revisionism on part of recent Vienna Circle scholarship, veterans of the struggle against the...