Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2016
Pages: 99-113
Reihe: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319218755
Volle Referenz:
, "Carnap's Aufbau and the early Schlick", in: Influences on the Aufbau, Berlin, Springer, 2016
Carnap's Aufbau and the early Schlick
pp. 99-113
in: Christian Damböck (ed), Influences on the Aufbau, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstrakt
It is shown that Carnap's Aufbau was inspired by the early Moritz Schlick's conception of "empirical realism.' Demarcating it from "metaphysical' realism the empirical realist position was applied by Schlick to Einstein's theory of relativity. As will be argued in the paper, Carnap too thought that empirical realism is the adequate epistemological framework for a rational reconstruction of the language of science. On the whole, the aim is to make clear that the established view of Carnap as an ardent anti-realist is in need of correction: Carnap was a metaphysical anti-realist, but not an anti-realist as concerns science.
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Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2016
Pages: 99-113
Reihe: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319218755
Volle Referenz:
, "Carnap's Aufbau and the early Schlick", in: Influences on the Aufbau, Berlin, Springer, 2016