This volumes aim is to provide an introduction to Carnaps book from a historical and philosophical perspective, each chapter focusing on one specific issue. The book will be of interest not only to Carnap scholars but to all those interested in the history of analytical philosophy.
Author(s): Pierre Wagner
Series: History of Analytic Philosophy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 304
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Note on References......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: The Route to The Logical Syntax of Language......Page 66
1 Carnap’s Logical Syntax in the Context of the Vienna Circle......Page 68
2 From Wittgenstein’s Prison to the Boundless Ocean: Carnap’s Dream of Logical Syntax......Page 94
Part II: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic......Page 122
3 Carnap’s Syntax Programme and the Philosophy of Mathematics......Page 124
4 Carnap on Logical Consequence for Languages I and II......Page 136
5 Carnap’s Criterion of Logicality......Page 162
Part III: Carnap’s Philosophical Programme and Traditional Philosophy......Page 180
6 Logical Syntax, Quasi-Syntax, and Philosophy......Page 182
7 The Analysis of Philosophy in Logical Syntax: Carnap’s Critique and His Attempt at a Reconstruction......Page 199
8 The Gentle Strength of Tolerance: The Logical Syntax of Language and Carnap’s Philosophical Programme......Page 218
Part IV: Carnap, Empiricism, and the Principle of Tolerance......Page 230
9 From Tolerance to Reciprocal Containment......Page 232
10 Tolerance, Intuition, and Empiricism......Page 251
Bibliography......Page 265
N......Page 278
W......Page 279
C......Page 280
G......Page 281
M......Page 282
R......Page 283
T......Page 284
V......Page 285
