A. W. Carus, Carus A. W.

Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought

Explication as Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book places Carnap's central ideas in a broad cultural, political and intellectual context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780521130868
• ISBN-10: 0521130867
• Artikelnr.: 28527270

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The cultural inheritance
2. The intellectual inheritance: positivism and Kantianism
3. The grand plan of a 'System of Knowledge': science and logic
4. Carnap's early neo-Kantianism
5. The impact of Russell
6. Rational reconstruction
7. The impact of Wittgenstein
8. The crisis of rational reconstruction
9. Liberation
10. Tolerance
11. The ideal of explication.