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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 225-239

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349328468

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, "Engineers and drifters", in: Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Engineers and drifters

the ideal of explication and its critics

pp. 225-239

in: Pierre Wagner, Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism, Berlin, Springer, 2012

Abstract

On the surface, Carnap"s writings give the appearance of enormous heterogeneity, and are often read through the distorting lens of a popular mythology about the Vienna Circle and logical positivism. In my book (Carus 2007a) I tried, following the hints given by certain students of the late Carnap such as Richard Jeffrey and Howard Stein, to set the myths aside and find a thread of coherence. I told a story that made the ideal of explication — a species of Enlightenment engineering ideal1 — central, and the specific language projects more peripheral.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2012

Pages: 225-239

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349328468

Full citation:

, "Engineers and drifters", in: Carnap's ideal of explication and naturalism, Berlin, Springer, 2012