Selected philosophical essays

by Hempel, Carl Gustav

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Full title :Selected philosophical essays / Carl G. Hempel ; edited by Richard Jeffrey.

Summary

Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-97) was one of the preeminent figures in the philosophical movement of logical empiricism. He was a member of both the Berlin and Vienna circles, fled Germany in 1934 and finally settled in the US where he taught for many years in New York, Princeton, and Pittsburgh. The essays in this collection come from the early and late periods of Hempel's career and chart his intellectual odyssey from a rigorous commitment to logical positivism in the 1930s (when Hempel allied himself closely with Carnap) to a more sociological approach close in spirit to the work of Neurath and Kuhn. The collection brings together essays which have up till now been difficult to find, four of which are appearing in English for the first time. Cumulatively they offer a fresh perspective on Hempel's intellectual development and on the rise and demise of logical empiricism.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000

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The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 317 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511815157, 0511815158, 9780521624480, 0521624487, 9780521624756, 0521624754
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511815157
oclc:ocn967413239
LC Classification:B945
Dewey Decimal:191