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Carnap’s Ideal of Explication and Naturalism

  • Pierre Wagner
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Part of the History of Analytic Philosophy book series (History of Analytic Philosophy)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Pierre Wagner
      Pages 1-4

  3. Historical Situation of Carnap’s Ideal of Explication

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 5-5
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    2. Carnap’s Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
      Alan Richardson
      Pages 7-22
    3. Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions
      Gottfried Gabriel
      Pages 23-33
    4. Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis
      Juliet Floyd
      Pages 34-46
    5. Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung
      Jacques Bouveresse
      Pages 47-62
    6. Carnap’s Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities : Between Enlightenment and Romanticism
      Thomas Mormann
      Pages 63-78

  4. Carnap’s Ideal of Explication: Critical Assessments and Examples

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 79-79
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    2. Carnap’s Conception of Philosophy
      Wolfgang Kienzler
      Pages 81-95
    3. Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique
      Erich Reck
      Pages 96-116
    4. The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication
      Thomas Uebel
      Pages 117-130
    5. Explicating ‘Analytic’
      Steve Awodey
      Pages 131-143
    6. Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity
      Philippe de Rouilhan
      Pages 144-158

  5. The Contemporary Debate

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 159-159
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    2. Before Explication
      Richard Creath
      Pages 161-174
    3. Natural Languages, Formal Languages, and Explication
      Pierre Wagner
      Pages 175-189
    4. Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics
      Michael Friedman
      Pages 190-204
    5. The Perils of Pollyanna
      Mark Wilson
      Pages 205-224
    6. Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and Its Critics
      A. W. Carus
      Pages 225-239
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 240-263
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Age of Enlightenment bibliography concept construction critique dialectic enlightenment Ludwig Wittgenstein metaphysics naturalism philosophy physics reconstruction Rudolf Carnap semantic

Authors and affiliations

  • Pierre Wagner
    • 1
  1. 1.Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneParisFrance

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