The philosopher without qualities

A. W. Carus

pp. 369-377

in: Michael Heidelberger, Friedrich Stadler (eds), History of philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

The revival of interest in Carnap's philosophy over the past two decades has shed much light on particular aspects of his intellectual development and its context. We now have a better appreciation of the background and motivation of the Aufbau. ¹ The radical nature of the Syntax program has fmally, more than half a century after its first publication, begun to be acknowledged.² And the later Carnap has also been re-assessed; the previously widespread impression that Quine was "right" and Carnap "wrong" in the analytic-synthetic debate has yielded to a more balanced view³, and the broad outlines of Camap's late philosophy have begun to emerge.⁴

Cited authors

Carnap Rudolf

Quine Willard Van Orman