Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Werte beim frühen Carnap: Von den Anfängen bis zum Aufbau

   • A. W. Carus

   Pages 1-18Open Access

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3. Die Entwicklung von Carnaps Aufbau 1920–1928

   • Christian Damböck

   Pages 19-53Open Access

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4. Carnap’s Opposition to Logic of the Geisteswissenschaften

   • Fons Dewulf

   Pages 55-73Open Access

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5. Rudolf Carnap: Philosoph der Neuen Sachlichkeit

   • Hans-Joachim Dahms

   Pages 75-105Open Access

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6. Carnap und das Bauhaus

   • Peter Bernhard

   Pages 107-126Open Access

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7. Was bedeutet Carnaps „Reinigung“ der Erkenntnistheorie?

   • Thomas Uebel

   Pages 127-147Open Access

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8. Realism and Anti-Realism in Young Carnap

   • Johannes Friedl

   Pages 149-168Open Access

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9. Eigenpsychisches und Fremdpsychisches: Rudolf Carnaps Verhältnis zur Psychologie zwischen 1928 und 1932

   • Uljana Feest

   Pages 169-184Open Access

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10. Physikalistische Graphologie als Avantgarde der Psychologie oder Physikalismus auf Abwegen

    • Thomas Mormann

    Pages 185-203Open Access

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11. Carnap and the Members of the Lvov–Warsaw School. Carnap’s Warsaw Lectures (1930) in the Polish context

    • Anna Brożek

    Pages 205-221Open Access

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12. Rudolf Carnap und Kurt Gödel: Die beiderseitige Bezugnahme in ihren philosophischen Selbstzeugnissen

    • Eva-Maria Engelen

    Pages 223-242Open Access

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13. Building a New Thursday Circle. Carnap and Frank in Prague

    • Adam Tamas Tuboly

    Pages 243-264Open Access

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This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives. It enables further evaluation of the diaries and traces newly found interrelationships and their systematic definition. From a cultural and historical point of view, Logical Empiricism and Carnap’s pivotal opus, The Logical Structure of the World, did not evolve in a vacuum. This applies equally in a history of philosophy context as well as under consideration of contemporary historical and cultural influences such as the socio-cultural setting in Vienna and Prague, the correlation between Logical Empiricism and Bauhaus modernism, the connection to the Life Reform Movement or the Youth Movement with its own life philosophy. Pursuing Carnap’s progression on a micro level of history and referring the results back to Carnap’s philosophy is now facilitated by recent access to his Diaries from 1908–1935. These shorthand records, reading lists, travel reports and notes constitute a valuable source for the research of networks and social movements which left their mark on him.

• Rudolf Carnap
• Carnap’s Diaries
• The Logical Structure of the World
• Life Reform Movement
• Vienna Circle
• Open Access

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

  Christian Damböck

• Universitat Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  Gereon Wolters

Christian Damböck is Privatdozent at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. He is recently working on an edition of Rudolf Carnap's diaries and scientific correspondence (FWF research grant P31716). His research interests are philosophy of science and the humanities in the 19th and 20th century in central Europe and the US; moral non-cognitivism and theories of democracy; philosophy of logic; the philosophies of Wilhelm Dilthey, Hermann Cohen, Chaim H. Steinthal, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Thomas Kuhn, and Wolfgang Stegmüller.

Gereon Wolters is professor emeritus of philosophy and history of science at the University of Konstanz and director of the Philosophical Archive. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science - Leopoldina and of the Academia Europea. His most recent publication that deals with Carnap is: “« Wrongful Life » Reloaded: Logico-Empiricism’s Philosophy of Biology 1934/36 (Prague/Paris/Copenhagen) - With Historico-Political Intermezzos”, in: Michel Bourdeau/Gerhard Heinzmann/Pierre Wagner (eds.), Sur la philosophie scientifique et l'unité de la science. Le congrès de Paris 1935 et son héritage. Actes du colloque de Cerisy,  Philosophia Scientiæ 22(3) 2018 (special issue), 233-255“.  

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