Carl gustav hempel

Carl Gustav Hempel (Jan. 8th, 1905 - Nov. 9th, 1997)

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  • Born

    Born
    Carl Hempel was born in Oranienberg, Germany near Berlin. Oranienberg became more well known in WWII for hosting the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Cited: Jeffrey, Richard. "In Memoriam: Carl Gustav Hempel." Erkenntnis, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 281-283. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/docview/195460954?accountid=8289, doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.1023/A:1005339312532.

  • Education

    Education
    Carl attended the University of Gottingen, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. During this time he studied physics, mathematics and philosophy. Cited: Jeffrey, Richard. "In Memoriam: Carl Gustav Hempel." Erkenntnis, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 281-283. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/docview/195460954?accountid=8289, doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.1023/A:1005339312532.

  • Meets Rudolf Carnap

    Meets Rudolf Carnap
    Carl attends the first congress for scientific philosophy, were he meets Rudolf Carnap, a member of the Vienna Circle, with whom he befriends and will later move to Vienna, Italy. Ultimately this gave him a connection to both the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Circle.

  • Earns Doctorate in Philosphy

    Carl Hempel earned his Doctorate just one week before Hitler assumed the mantle of the Führer-Reichskanzler in 1934. Jeffrey, Richard. "In Memoriam: Carl Gustav Hempel." Erkenntnis, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 281-283. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/docview/195460954?accountid=8289, doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.apus.edu/10.1023/A:1005339312532

  • Collaberates on first book

    Collaberates on first book
    Carl worked with Paul Oppenhiem to publish "Paul Oppenheim the book Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik (1936) ", in which he delved into the logical theory and metric scientific concepts

  • Moved to the US

    Due to the rise of Nazism in Europe, Carl moved to the United States with his wife, Paul Oppenheim and Rudolf Carnap

  • Begins Teaching

    Carl Hempel began teaching at City College, New York, before being appointed to an Instructorship at Queens College, New York

  • The Raven Paradox

    The Raven Paradox
    The Hempel paradox or more commonly known as the Raven paradox was formulated throughout the 1940s, it is a simple but yet highly complex statement about confirmations of observations made. If we observe ravens we will see that they are all black therefore all ravens are black and anything non black is not a raven. This is also referred to as deductive logic. The link included is a video which discusses on the paradox more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKmqh5Eu4Y&feature=youtu.be

  • The Function of General Laws in History

    The Function of General Laws in History
    Carl Hempel publishes one of his most recognized papers. Fetzer, James. “Carl Hempel.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 6 Sept. 2017, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hempel/.

  • Publishes 3 important papers

    Carl publishes "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation", “Geometry and Empirical Science”, and “The Nature of Mathematical Truth”. Cited: Fetzer, James. “Carl Hempel.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 6 Sept. 2017, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hempel/.

  • Most Controversial Publication

    Towards the end of WWII “Studies in the Logic of Confirmation”, is published and this will be his most controversial work yet. "where he evaluates the conditions under which an empirical generalization would be confirmed or disconfirmed by instances or non-instances of its antecedent and consequent." (Fetzer 2017)
    Cited: Fetzer, James. “Carl Hempel.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 6 Sept. 2017, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hempel/.

  • Publishes first book

    "Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science" was Carl's first book. Although he had collaborated on various scientific and philosophical publications, he had never written his own exclusive book.

  • Fundamentals of the formation of concepts in empirical science

    At the end of his work at Queens College he taught at Yale University while teaching in this he wrote his most outstanding study Fundamentals of the formation of concepts in empirical science (1952), which appeared in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Cited: ://history-biography.com/carl-hempel/

  • Frontiers of Science and Philosophy

    Hemper publishes "Frontiers of Science and Philosophy"

  • Aspects of Scientific Explanation

    Hemper publishes "Aspects of Scientific Explanation"

  • Natural Science Philosophy

    Hempel publishes "Natural Science Philosophy"

  • Distances from Logical Positivism

    During the last decades of Carl Hempel's academic career, he begins to distance himself from logical positivism, which is referred to in his publication "The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empiricist Construal (1973)"

  • Death

    Carl passed away in Princeton, NJ.