Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach

Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, and Hans Reichenbach on September 26 in the same year. They are two of the greatest philosophers of this century, and they are eminent representatives of what is perhaps the most powerful contemporary philosophical movement. Moreover, they founded the journal...

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Other Authors: Spohn, W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Hans Reichenbach Remembered
  • Die vergessene Rezension der “allgemeinen Erkenntnislehre” Moritz Schlicks durch Hans Reichenbach — Ein Stück Philosophiegeschichte
  • The Space Problem in the New Quantum Mechanics
  • The Causal Relation as the Most Fundamental Fact of the World. Comments on Hans Reichenbach’s Paper: The Space Problem in the New Quantum Mechanics
  • Reichenbach’s Metaphysical Picture
  • Equivalent Descriptions
  • Hans Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction
  • Reichenbach, Induction, and Discovery
  • Causal Inference
  • Causation and the Direction of Time
  • How to Hunt Quantum Causes
  • Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology
  • After Carnap
  • Making Sense of Carnap’s “Aufbau”
  • Die Konstruktion der Erfahrungswelt: Carnap und Husserl
  • Carnap und der Physikalismus
  • Carnap, the Universality of Language and Extremality Axioms
  • A Theory about Logical Theories of “Expressions of the Form ‘The So and So’, where ‘The’ is in the Singular”
  • Every Dogma Has Its Day
  • Relevant Deduction: From Solving Paradoxes Towards a General Theory
  • Carnapian Inductive Logic for Markov Chains
  • Zur Geschichte der ‘Erkenntnis’