scholarly journals Roman Ingarden’s “The Logical Attempt at a New Formulation of Philosophy: A Critical Remark”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Linsky
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Critical Remark ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
World Congress ◽  
New Formulation

Translated by Bernard Linsky This is the first English translation of Roman Ingarden’s paper presented at the 8th World Congress of Philosophy held in Prague in 1934: “Der Logistische Versuch einer Neugestaltung der Philosophie: Eine Kritische Bemerkung”, translated here as “The Logical Attempt at a New Formulation of Philosophy: A Critical Remark”. Also translated here are brief discussions by Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath. These essays were published in the original German in the Proceedings of the Congress in 1936. This statement of Ingarden’s criticisms of the doctrines of the Vienna Circle has been mentioned in print, but his views have not been discussed, or indeed accurately reported to date.

A. J. Ayer. Editor's introduction. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 3–28; also first paperback edition, The Free Press, New York 1966, pp. 3–28. - Bertrand Russell. Logical atomism. A reprint of XXV 333. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 31–50; also ibid., pp. 31–50. - Moritz Schlick. Positivism and realism. A reprint of XVI 67. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 82–107; also ibid., pp. 82–107. - Carl G. Hempel. The empiricist criterion of meaning. A reprint of XVI 293. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 108–129; also ibid., pp. 108–129. - Rudolf Carnap. The old and the new logic. English translation of 3525 by Isaac Levi. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 133–146; also ibid., pp. 133–146. - Hans Hahn. Logic, mathematics and knowledge of nature. English translation of 4193 by Arthur Pap. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 147–161 ; also ibid., pp. 147–161. - Friedrich Waismann. How I see philosophy. A reprint of XXIII 209. Logical positivism, edited by A. J. Ayer, The Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1959, pp. 345–380; also ibid., pp. 345–380.

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-312
Author(s):  
Alonzo Church
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Paperback Edition ◽  
Logical Atomism

Carnap, Rudolf (1891–1970)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Elder
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Inductive Logic ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Philosophical Method ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
Modal Theory ◽  
Foundations Of Probability

Rudolf Carnap was a German-American philosopher, and was widely regarded as one of most important of the 20th century. Politically engaged and inclined toward utopianism, Carnap was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a staunch advocate of the unity of science thesis, which held that the various physical sciences—physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology—could be unified into a single overarching theory. He worked across numerous fields, including the foundations of probability, modal theory, inductive logic, and semantics. His principal philosophical method was logical analysis, the final goal of which, he explained, is to analyze all assertions of science and everyday life alike, to identify the method of verification for each proposition. This method is grounded in the anti-metaphysical verificationist principle, according to which a statement is meaningful only if a method of verifying it is available. Carnap himself was well aware that his philosophy shared in the same spirit as modernist art. In his preface to Die Logische Aufbau der Welt (1928) Carnap claims that there is "an inner kinship" between the attitude on which his philosophical work is founded, "and the intellectual attitude which presently manifests itself in entirely different walks of life; we feel this orientation in artistic movements."

Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam. Introduction. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1964, pp. 1–27. - Rudolf Carnap. The logicist foundations of mathematics. English translation of 3528 by Erna Putnam and Gerald E. Massey. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 31–41. - Arend Heyting. The intuitionist foundations of mathematics. English translation of 3856 by Erna Putnam and Gerald E. Massey. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 42–49. - Johann von Neumann. The formalist foundations of mathematics. English translation of 2998 by Erna Putnam and Gerald E. Massey. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 50–54. - Arend Heyting. Disputation. A reprint of pages 1-12 (the first chapter) and parts of the bibliography of XXI 367. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 55–65. - L. E. J. Brouwer. Intuitionism and formalism. A reprint of 1557. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 66–77. - L. E. J. Brouwer. Consciousness, philosophy, and mathematics. A reprint of pages 1243-1249 of XIV 132. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 78–84. - Gottlob Frege. The concept of number. English translation of pages 67-104, 115-119, of 495 (1884 edn.) by Michael S. Mahoney. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 85–112. - Bertrand Russell. Selections from Introduction to mathematical philosophy. A reprint of pages 1-19, 194-206, of 11126 (1st edn., 1919). Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 113–133. - David Hilbert. On the infinite. English translation of 10813 by Erna Putnam and Gerald E. Massey. Philosophy of mathematics, Selected readings, edited by Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 134–151.

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Alec Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Hilary Putnam ◽  
Foundations Of Mathematics ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
David Hilbert ◽  
And Mathematics

„Bilder zukünftiger Vollendung“ – Der freistudentische Serakreis 1913 in den Tagebüchern und Briefen von und an Wilhelm Flitner

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meike G. Werner
Keyword(s):  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
The University

Conceived as a collage, this essay presents annotated excerpts from diaries and correspondences from the year 1913. It recreates a plethora of voices, especially of young intellectuals, progressive students and artists, focusing on the Sera Circle around the publisher Eugen Diederichs in Jena. Among the voices included are Wilhelm Flitner, who became a professor of education at the University of Hamburg, Rudolf Carnap, who later joined the Vienna Circle, Helene Czapski-Holzman, an artist and student of Max Beckmann, as well as Franz Roh, an art critic, photographer and collage-artist.

scholarly journals Intersubjective Accountability: Politics and Philosophy in the Left Vienna Circle

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Thomas Uebel
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Epistemic Norm ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
National Economies

In different places Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath affirmed “a noteworthy agreement” and an “inner link” between their philosophy of science and political movements agitating for radical socio-economic change. Given the normative abstinence of Vienna Circle philosophy, indeed the metaethical commitments of its verificationism, this claim presents a major interpretive challenge that is only heightened when Neurath’s engagement for the socialization of national economies is taken into account. It is argued here that Carnap’s and Neurath’s positions are saved from inconsistency once some careful distinctions are understood and it is recognized that they, together with the other members of the Circle, adhered to an epistemic norm here called “intersubjective accountability.”

The Vienna Circle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Murray
Keyword(s):  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
Ernst Mach ◽  
Kurt Gödel ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Scientific Worldview

In 1922 Moritz Schlick (1882–1936) transformed the Verein Ernst Mach (Ernst Mach Society), a weekly reading group concerned with logical positivism, into an international assembly of academics known as der Weiner Kreis, or the Vienna Circle, which responded to recent developments within analytic philosophy by leading thinkers Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Early members included Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) and Otto Neurath (1882–1945). In 1929, Neurath published Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung. Der Wiener Kreis (The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle), a pamphlet delineating the group’s rejection of metaphysics in favour of a scientific worldview predicated upon empirical phenomena.

Ogden and the Vienna Circle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Vienna Circle ◽  
World War ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
International Language ◽  
Basic English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intellectual Environment

This chapter investigates the contact and collaboration between C. K. Ogden and the Vienna Circle philosophers Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, which was chiefly driven by Ogden and centred around his project Basic English. The aspects of philosophy of language and social engagement that united Ogden with Neurath and Carnap are first examined in detail. Attention then turns to Neurath’s picture statistics, which through collaboration with Ogden evolved into Isotype, a contribution to the international language movement aligned with Basic. Finally, the relationship between Ogden, Carnap and Neurath as revealed in their correspondence is discussed, along with their shared fate in the post-World War II intellectual environment.

Gödel’s Theorem: An End and a Beginning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan von Plato
Keyword(s):  
Vienna Circle ◽  
Logical Empiricism ◽  
Rudolf Carnap ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Kurt Gödel ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Gödel’S Theorem

This chapter discusses how Kurt Gödel found his theorem. He started to study physics at the University of Vienna in 1924, then changed to mathematics in 1926. That same year, he started attending the meetings of the Vienna Circle. These were weekly gatherings on philosophical topics that were headed by the philosopher Moritz Schlick. The philosophy of the circle came to be known as logical empiricism and had an enormous effect on the world of philosophy. Gödel later wanted to emphasize that he by no means shared all of the philosophical ideas of the circle. In the meetings, Gödel came to know the philosopher Rudolf Carnap and the mathematician Karl Menger, in whose mathematical colloquium he later presented many of his results.

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