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1 day ago · Others, like Carnap, were gentiles but socialists or pacifists. With the coming to power of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in 1933, many members of the Vienna and Berlin Circles fled to Britain and the United States, which helped to reinforce the dominance of logical positivism and analytic philosophy in anglophone countries.
1 day ago · Universal symbols evolved from this concept of picture language, and, in 1936, Otto Neurath together with Rudolf Carnap and Charles W. Morris, formalised a system of symbols that were used and understood as an international visual language.
3 days ago · Rudolf Carnap: Embracing logical pluralism When logical positivism first emerged in Central Europe, after the First World War, it scandalized established philosophers by dismissing much of the substance of contemporary philosophy.
1 day ago · Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) questioned the objectivity of ontological theories by claiming that what exists depends on one's linguistic framework. [212] He had a strong influence on Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who analyzed the ontological commitments of scientific theories to solve ontological problems. [213]
2 days ago · It wasn’t quite as impactful as Lyndon Johnson’s quip that “Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time,” but within the cloistered world of early 20th century European philosophy it was a significant burn when Rudolf Carnap pointed out that the influential metaphysics of his contemporaries strung together a load of sentences that were “entirely meaningless ...
3 days ago · Carl Gustav " Peter " Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard ...
2 days ago · Paul Watzlawick. Paul Anton Watzlawick (* 25. Juli 1921 in Villach, Kärnten; [ 1] † 31. März 2007 in Palo Alto, Kalifornien) war ein österreichisch - US-amerikanischer Philosoph, Psychotherapeut und Kommunikationswissenschaftler . Watzlawick lebte ab 1960 in seiner Wahlheimat Kalifornien und arbeitete am Mental Research Institute (MRI) in ...
