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Born
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Joined the Berlin Circle
Mr. Hempel joins up with the Die Gesellschaft für Empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy), more commonly known as the Berlin Circle, a group of scientist and philosophers who gathered around Hans Reichenbach. Other members of the circle included K. Grelling, C. G. Hempel, D. Hilbert, R. von Mises. -
Fist congress on scientific philosophy
The first congress on scientific philosophy was held in Prague in late 1929, organized by logical positivists. -
"Erkenntis" (knowledge) produced
The Berlin Circle and Vienna Circle collaborate to produce "Erkenntis", hoping to gain an understanding of natural science and all of human knowledge through a variety of scientific disciplines while also hoping that scientific philosophy would be accepted as being objective knowledge. Named his concepts ,logical empiricism, in an effort to distinguish the it from the logical positivism coined by the Vienna Circle. However, in modern times, both concepts are used interchangeably. -
Achieves Doctorate in Philosophy
Mr. Hempel is awarded his doctorate in philosophy in Berlin. Also receives a dissertation in the theory or probability. -
Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik
Mr. Hempel along with Paul Oppenheim publish Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik, focusing on logical theory of classifier, comparative and metric scientific concepts. -
The Function of General Laws in History
General laws (or universal hypothesis) have analogous functions in history and the natural sciences; they are an indispensable instrument of historical research (p.43)
A general law is a statement of universal conditional form which is capable of being confirmed or disconfirmed by suitable empirical findings (p.43) -
“Studies in the Logic of Confirmation”, The Raven Pardox
Mr. Hempels essay the Studies in the Logic of Confirmation is produced and introduces the Raven Paradox. It introduces the problem with inductive reasoning, in this example using ravens. If you observe ravens over a period of time and you notice they are all back, you will produce the statement that "all ravens are black". Inherently then the statement that will be produced is that "all non-black things are not ravens". Since it is impossible to observe all ravens this statement may not be true. -
The Raven Paradox Video
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Deductive-Nomological (or Covering-Law) Model of science
Mr. Hempel and Oppenheim produce what is their best regarded article in 1948 known as the Deductive-Nomological (or Covering-Law) Model of science.Within this view scientific explanation of a fact is described as a deduction of a statement of the facts we wish to explain (the explanandum),; the premise of the deduction are scientific laws plus initial conditions. Also distinguished between a fundamental theory, which has no restrictions, and a derived theory. -
The Logic of Functional Analysis
States that scientific law goes beyond the evidence and is more than a summary of explanations. -
Philosophy of Natural Science
This book delved deeper into the methodology and scientific inquiry rather than substantiating the results. -
Scientific Explanation
Introduces the proposed criteria for distinguishing scientific law hood from baseless generalizations through the use of the DN method (deductive-nomological). -
Died
Princeton township, New Jersey