Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism [electronic resource] /
Wagner, Pierre.author.
Wagner, Pierre,editor of compilation.
The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Notes on References; Introduction; Part I Historical Situation of Carnap's Ideal of Explication; 1 Carnap's Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; 2 Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions; 3 Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis; 4 Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung; 5 Carnap's Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities : Between Enlightenment and Romanticism; Part II Carnap's Ideal of Explication: Critical Assessments and Examples
6 Carnap's Conception of Philosophy7 Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique; 8 The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication; 9 Explicating 'Analytic'; 10 Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity; Part III The Contemporary Debate; 11 Before Explication; 12 Natural Languages, Formal Languages, and Explication; 13 Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics; 14 The Perils of Pollyanna; 15 Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and Its Critics; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.
Carnap, Rudolf, 1891-1970.
Philosophy (General).
Logic.
Analysis (Philosophy).
History of Philosophy.
Logic.
Analytic Philosophy.