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Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle

Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism

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  1. Jan Woleński

    1. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

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  2. Eckehart Köhler

    1. Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna and University of Vienna, Austria

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 6)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Articles

    1. The Development of Tarski’s Concept of Truth

      2. Theories of Truth: Vienna, Berlin, and Warsaw
        • Ilkka Niiniluoto
        Pages 17-26
      3. Truth before Tarski
        • Hans Sluga
        Pages 27-41

    2. The Interaction Between Tarski and the Vienna Circle

      1. How the Unity of Science Saved Alfred Tarski
        • Anita Burdman Feferman
        Pages 43-52
      2. Tarski and Gödel: Between the Lines
        • Solomon Feferman
        Pages 53-63

    3. Philosophical Aspects of Tarski’s Concept of Truth and its Application in the Methodology of Science

      2. Is Antipsychologism Still Tenable?
        • Andrzej Grzegorczyk
        Pages 109-114
      4. Łukasiewicz’ Theory of Truth, from the Quantum Logical Point of View
        • Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini
        Pages 127-134
      5. Intuitionism and Logical Tolerance
        • Göran Sundholm
        Pages 135-148
      6. Tarski on Language and Truth
        • Wilhelm K. Essler
        Pages 149-163
      7. Neurath’s Opposition To Tarskian Semantics
        • Thomas Mormann
        Pages 165-178

    4. Technical Aspects of Tarski’s Definition of Truth and Model Theory

      1. Tarski’s Truth Condition Revisited
        • Paul Weingartner
        Pages 193-201
      3. Tarski’s Guilty Secret: Compositionality
        • Jaakko Hintikka, Gabriel Sandu
        Pages 217-230
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The larger part of Yearbook 6 of the Institute Vienna Circle constitutes the proceedings of a symposium on Alfred Tarski and his influence on and interchanges with the Vienna Circle, especially those on and with Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Gödel. It is the first time that this topic has been treated on such a scale and in such depth. Attention is mainly paid to the origins, development and subsequent role of Tarski's definition of truth. Some contributions are primarily historical, others analyze logical aspects of the concept of truth. Contributors include Anita and Saul Feferman, Jan Wolenski, Jan Tarski and Hans Sluga. Several Polish logicians contributed: Gzegorczyk, Wójcicki, Murawski and Rojszczak. The volume presents entirely new biographical material on Tarski, both from his Polish period and on his influential career in the United States: at Harvard, in Princeton, at Hunter, and at the University of California at Berkeley. The high point of the analysis involves Tarski's influence on Carnap's evolution from a narrow syntactical view of language, to the ontologically more sophisticated but more controversial semantical view. Another highlight involves the interchange between Tarski and Gödel on the connection between truth and proof and on the nature of metalanguages.
The concluding part of Yearbook 6 includes documentation, book reviews and a summary of current activities of the Institute Vienna Circle. Jan Tarski introduces letters written by his father to Gödel; Paolo Parrini reports on the Vienna Circle's influence in Italy; several reviews cover recent books on logical empiricism, on Gödel, on cosmology, on holistic approaches in Germany, and on Mauthner.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

    Jan Woleński

  • Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna and University of Vienna, Austria

    Eckehart Köhler

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