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The editors of this volume have asked me to contribute some personal reminiscence of ‘Peter’ Hempel (as he was and is called by all of us). It gives me great satisfaction to write such a note about Peter who has, for many years, been not only my admired and close friend, but also my philosophic associate and mentor. I hope that a chronology of our collaboration — with emphasis on him — will be of general interest, perhaps by shedding some new light on the professional development of this remarkable man.
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C. G. Hempel et Paul Oppenheim, ‘L’importance logique de la notion de type’, Actes du Congrès International de Philosophie Scientifique, vol. II, Hermann et Cie., Paris, 1935, pp. 1–9. Paul Oppenheim, ‘Von Klassenbegriffen zu Ordnungsbegriffen’, Travaux du IXe Congrès International de Philosophie, vol. VI, Hermann et Cie., Paris, 1937, pp. 69–76.
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Peter published his results in an article entitled ‘A Purely Topological Form of Non-Aristotelian Logic’, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 2 (1937), 97–112.
Carl G. Hempel, and Paul Oppenheim, ‘A Definition of “Degree of Confirmation”’, Philosophy of Science 12 (1945), 98–115.
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‘A Syntactical Definition of Probability and of Degree of Confirmation’, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 10 (1945), 25–60.
Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, ‘Studies in the Logic of Explanation’, Philosophy of Science 15 (1948), 134–175.
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Oppenheim, P. (1969). Reminiscences of Peter. In: Rescher, N. (eds) Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. Synthese Library, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1466-2_1
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