Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
PIERRE WAGNER is Matre de conferences at the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, France and former Fellow of cole normale suprieure of Paris, doctor in philosophy. His publications include La Machine en Logique (1998), Les Philosophes et la Science (editor, 2002), La Philosophie des Sciences, (2 vol.) (co-editor with Laugier, 2004) Lge dor de Lempirisme Logique, (co-editor with Bonnet, 2006) and La Logique (2007).
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on References
Introduction--P.Wagner
PART I: THE ROUTE TO THE LOGICAL SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE
Carnaps Logical Syntax on the Context of the Vienna Circle--T.Uebel
From Wittgensteins Prison to the Boundless Ocean: Carnaps Dream of Logical Syntax--A.W.Carus&--S.AwodeyPART II: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS AND LOGIC
Carnaps Syntax Program and the Philosophy of Mathematics--W.Goldfarb
Carnap on Logical Consequence for Languages I and II--P.De Rouilhan
Carnaps Criterion of Logicality--D.Bonnay
PART III: CARNAPS PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRAMME AND TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHY
Logical Syntax, Quasi-Syntax, and Philosophy--J.Bouveresse
The Analysis of Philosophy in Logical Syntax: Carnaps Critique and His Attempt at a Reconstruction--P.Wagner
The Gentle Strength of Tolerance: The Logical Syntax Of Language and Carnaps Philosophic Program--R.Creath
PART IV: CARNAP, EMPIRICISM, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF TOLERANCE
From Tolerance to Reciprocal Containment--T.Ricketts
Tolerance, Intuition, and Empiricism--M.Friedman
Bibliography
Index