On Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928). What can we know? Carnap thinks that all the various spheres of knowledge (e.g. particle physics, attributions of mental states, moral claims, the economy) are logically interrelated, that you can in fact translate sentences about any of these into sentences about sets of basic, momentary experiences. This book, Continue Reading …
PREVIEW-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
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Topic for #67: Carnap on Logic and Science
On 11/15/12 we recorded a discussion of Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928), often referred to as "the Aufbau," because it sounds cool, and the German title is Der Logische Aufbau der Welt. Listen to the episode. To get a good sense of Carnap's project, we read pages 1-136, plus the subsequent chapter summaries: pages 166-171, 240-243, 298-300. The Continue Reading …