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Rudolf Carnap gilt unbestritten als einer der eminentesten Vertreter des logischen Empirismus. Im Band 2 der Reihe Texte zur Wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung" werden alle wesentlichen Aspekte seiner Philosophie zusammenhängend dargestellt und kritisch analysiert. Lothar Krauth beurteilt dabei Carnaps Bedeutung vor einem breiten, philosophiehistorischen Hintergrund. Nicht nur sein Einfluß und seine Vordenkerrolle im Wiener Kreis werden diskutiert, sondern auch die mehrfache Wandlung in Carnaps Denken. So erklärt sich manche allzu große Vereinfachung, mancher Radikalismus als erster Ansatz, der später überarbeitet, zu einem tragfähigen Bestandteil kommender analytischer Sprachtheorie ausgebaut wurde. ... Read more

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Examining the scholarly interest of the last two decades in the origins of logical empiricism, and especially the roots of Rudolf Carnap's "Der logische Aufbau der Welt" (The Logical Structure of the World), Rosado Haddock challenges the received view, according to which that book should be inserted in the empiricist tradition.In "The Young Carnap's Unknown Master" Rosado Haddock, builds on the interpretations of Aufbau propounded by Verena Mayer and of Carnap's earlier thesis "Der Raum" propounded by Sahotra Sarkar and offers instead the most detailed and complete argument on behalf of a Husserlian interpretation of both of these early works of Carnap, as well as offering a refutation of the rival Machian, kantian, Neo-Kantian, and other more eclectic interpretations of the influences on the work of the young Carnap.The book concludes with an assessment of Carnap's critique of the 'analytic-synthetic' distinction and a criticism of the direction that analytic philosophy has taken in following the footsteps of Carnap's friend, colleague and rival W.V. Quine. ... Read more

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A New Perspective on Carnap . . .
Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock offers a new perspective on the works of young Rudolf Carnap which generally has been neglected.The conventional story tells us that young Carnap's works are mostly due to the influence of Neo-Kantianism and other figures like Gottlob Frege.

Dr. Rosado Haddock shows that this is not the case.Based on Husserl's and Carnap's works, he shows that _Der Raum_ and in _Der Logische Aufbau der Welt_ are heavily influenced by Edmund Husserl.He even shows that Carnap used Husserl's own terminology, semantic doctrine, theory of constitution, and sometimes phenomenological language.

Dr. Rosado Haddock also offers a criticism to both Husserl's and Carnap's doctrine on intersubjectivity and offers new definitions of analyticity and syntheticity. ... Read more

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It is not inacurate to say that from 1928 to 1936 Carnap was a member of the Vienna Circle, even though during this period he was not always present in Vienna. During this years, which spanned roughly the period from the Aufbau to "Testability and Meaning", he worked or at least discussed frequently with the members of the group.

However, traditionally it has been difficult to form a proper view of the development of Carnap's ideas throughout this period, mainly because of three errors which have persisted in the commonly accepted historical interpretation of Carnap and the Vienna Circle: emphasis on the Circle as a unit rather than a collective of individuals; insistence on verificationism as the defining characteristic of Logical Positivism; and the systematic abstraction of the work of the Circle from its historical context. As against this historically distorted image, this book argues for an alternative reading, evaluating the different influences on Carnap of Schlick, Wittgenstein, Neurath and Popper, and making sense of Carnap's evolution from physicalism to phenomenalism and the syntactic point of view.
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