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- Title
A RESERVED READING OF CARNAP'S AUFBAU.
- Authors
PINCOCK, CHRISTOPHER
- Abstract
The two most popular approaches to Carnap's 1928 Aufbau are the empiricist reading of Quine and the neo-Kantian readings of Michael Friedman and Alan Richardson. This paper presents a third “reserved” interpretation that emphasizes Carnap's opposition to traditional philosophy and consequent naturalism. The main consideration presented in favor of the reserved reading is Carnap's work on a physical construction system. I argue that Carnap's construction theory was an empirical scientific discipline and that the basic relations of its construction systems need not be eliminated.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY; HERMENEUTICS; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); MECHANISM (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY of science; POSITIVISM; EMPIRICISM; RATIONALISM; IMMATERIALISM (Philosophy); IDEA (Philosophy)
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 4, p518
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00240.x