Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap (/ˈkɑːrnæp/;[20] German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. He is considered "one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers."[21]

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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap, 1935, by Francis Schmidt
Born	(1891-05-18)18 May 1891 Ronsdorf, Lennep, Düsseldorf, Rhine, Prussia, German Empire
Died	14 September 1970(1970-09-14) (aged 79) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Education	University of Jena (B.A., 1914; PhD, 1921) University of Freiburg (audit student, 1911–12)[1] University of Berlin (graduate research, 1917–18)[2] University of Vienna (Dr. phil. hab., 1926)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Nominalism[3] Vienna Circle Logical positivism Logical atomism[4] Logical behaviorism[5] Formalism in the philosophy of mathematics
Institutions	University of Vienna University of Chicago Institute for Advanced Study UCLA
Theses	Der Raum: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre (Space: A Contribution to the Theory of Science) (1921) Der logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World) (1926)
Doctoral advisor	Bruno Bauch (Ph.D. advisor)[2] Moritz Schlick (Dr. phil. hab.)[2]
Other academic advisors	Gottlob Frege Heinrich Rickert[1]
Doctoral students	Abner Shimony David Kaplan
Other notable students	Carl Gustav Hempel Peter G. Ossorio Herbert A. Simon Raymond Smullyan Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
Main interests	Logic · Epistemology Philosophy of science Semantics
Notable ideas	List Physicalism[6] Phenomenalism in linguistic terms Logical behaviorism[5] Extensionalism Analytic–synthetic distinction (revised) Internal–external distinction Confirmationism Constitution theory Semantics for modal logic Inductive logic Constructed systems Conceptual schemes Formal epistemology Framework-relative constitutive a priori[7] Intension and extension Functor[8] Beobachtungssatz (observational statement) Carnap's categoricity (Monomorphie)[9] problem Forkability theorem (Gabelbarkeitssatz): "every complete axiom system is also categorical (monomorph)"[10][11][12] Logical positivism Epistemic structural realism[13] L-true (logically true) statements[14] Intensional semantics evaluating formulas in state-descriptions[1] Carnap sentences[14] Three kinds of space: formal, physical and perceptual Elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis[15] Omega-rule[14] General self-referential lemma Carnapian (concept) explication[16] Principle of tolerance[17] Compatibilism[18][19]
Influences Frege · Kant · Einstein · Mach · Brentano · Russell · Husserl · Wittgenstein · Tarski · Bauch
Influenced Quine · Ayer · Bar-Hillel · Popper · Tarski Gödel · Hempel · Reichenbach · Waismann Kuhn · Lakatos · Davidson · Dummett · Lewis Goodman · Kaplan · Sellars · Jeffrey · Simon · Bergmann · Negarestani