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Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics, and Science: Full Circle: Publications of the Archive of Scientific Philo

Autor Greg Frost-Arnold
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2013
During the academic year 1940-1941, several giants of analytic philosophy congregated at Harvard, holding regular private meetings, with Carnap, Tarski, and Quine. Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard allows the reader to act as a fly on the wall for their conversations. Carnap took detailed notes during his year at Harvard. This book includes both a German transcription of these shorthand notes and an English translation in the appendix section. Carnap’s notes cover a wide range of topics, but surprisingly, the most prominent question is: If the number of physical items in the universe is finite, what form should scientific discourse take? This question is closely connected to an abiding philosophical problem: What is the relationship between the logico-mathematical realm and the material realm? Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s attempts to answer this question involve issues central to philosophy today.This book focuses on three such issues: nominalism, the unity of science, and analyticity. In short, the book reconstructs the lines of argument represented in these Harvard discussions, discusses their historical significance (especially Quine’s break from Carnap), and relates them when possible to contemporary treatments of these issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812698305
ISBN-10: 0812698304
Pagini: 257
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Open Court Publishing Company
Seria Full Circle: Publications of the Archive of Scientific Philo


Notă biografică

Greg Frost-Arnold is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Hobart &William Smith Colleges. He is associate editor for the Journal of the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Recenzii

""This book presents the results of a genuine breakthrough in our understanding of the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century: the discovery by Greg Frost-Arnold of Carnap's notes recording extensive discussions with Tarski and Quine in 1940-41. Frost-Arnold's very careful and illuminating analysis of these discussions will be of great interest to all students of the analytic tradition.""-MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Stanford university ""In 1940-41 Carnap, Tarski, and Quine met at Harvard to discuss fundamental issues. Thanks to this book we can now attend those discussions as well. Frost-Arnold goes beyond the recorded word to reconstruct in vivid terms the nuanced ideas of these three philosophic giants and, in addition, to tie those ideas to philosophic discussions that are still going on today. The book is a major achievement.""-RICHARD CREATH, Arizona State University ""In the 1980s a generation of eminent scholars pioneered the study of the history of analytic philosophy. In the last two decades, a younger generation of scholars has pushed the project forward by tapping the archives of the key thinkers in the analytic tradition. Of the many findings that have resulted from these efforts, the most exciting is arguably the discovery of the Carnap notes, amounting to more than eighty typescript pages, describing the conversations that took place at Harvard, in 1940-1941, between Carnap, Quine, and Tarski. During that year, these three giants of analytic philosophy had regular meetings discussing, among other things, the problem of the analytic/synthetic distinction and the prospects for a nominalist foundation of mathematics and science. In this superb book, Greg Frost-Arnold provides a rich and subtle discussion of these notes. In addition, he has put us in his debt by accurately editing and translating the notes. As in the case of the best people working in the history of analytic philosophy, the engagement with history is f