Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath

Christian Damböck, University of Vienna, is a researcher on the History of Philosophy of Science. He has published on the philosophy of Rudolf Carnap and other topics related to the Vienna Circle. Johannes Friedl, University of Graz, is a researcher with a focus on the Vienna Circle. He has co-edited two volumes of the Moritz-Schlick-Gesamtausgabe and has published a monograph and several articles on that topic. Ulf Höfer, University of Graz, has co-edited five volumes of Otto Neurath's Schriften. He works on 19th- and 20th-century Austrian philosophy and is in charge of the archive and collections of the Forschungsstelle für österreichische Philosophie, Graz.

List of Figures


Introduction


Part 1

Prehistory

1 Between Pietism and Herbartianism Archaeological Vestiges in Carnap’s Thought

  Michael Heidelberger



2 Neurath’s Anti-correspondentism and Avenarius

  Lucas Baccarat Silva Negrão de Campos



3 Carnap and Neurath’s Electromagnetic Ways to the Scientific World-Conception

  Jordi Cat



4 Reductionism, Structuralism, and Carnap’s Aufbau

  Thomas Uebel



Part 2

Physicalism, Protocol-Sentences, and Semantics

5 Sources of Linguistic Physicalism. Carnap’s and Neurath’s Views on Autopsychological Sentences, Private Language and the Nature of Experience

  Gergely Ambrus



6 Conceptions of Protocol Sentences in Neurath and Carnap and the Bipartite Metatheory Conception

  Joseph Bentley



7 Caught in the Middle? Empiricism, Epistemology, and Metaphilosophy in the Development of Carnap’s Views on Protocol Sentences

  Johannes Friedl



8 Carnap and Neurath on Truth, Meta-Language and Semantics

  Ulf Höfer



Part 3

Contexts and Relations

9 Truth in Science and Everyday Life Bertrand Russell’s Theories of Meaning and Truth as Controversial Issues between Carnap and Neurath

  Hans-Joachim Dahms



10 Carnap and Neurath as Critics of the Tractatus

  Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau



11 Isotype, Logical Empiricism, and the Scientific World-Conception

  Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner



12 Kurt Gödel in the Carnap Diaries and Carnap-Neurath Correspondence – a New Look at his Personality and Scholarship

  Friedrich Stadler



13 Neurath on “Plato-Hitler” and the British Scene of Irritation

  Adam Tamas Tuboly



Index