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Birth
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Doctoral thesis finished called "Der Raum: Ein Bietrag Our Wissenschaftsiehre"
Translated to English, "Space: A Contribution to the Theory of Science". Rudolf Carnap work on his dissertation, on the "philosophical foundations of geometry" (Sarkar), from 1919 to 1921. In this work Carnap tried to distinguish the difference of space as it related to Philosophers, Mathematicians, and Physicists.
Carnap, Rudolf. “Der Raum: Ein Bietrag Our Wissenschaftsiehre.” 1921. -
Invited to Join the Circle de Vienna
Rudolf Carnap was invited to join the Vienna Circle by the founder Moritz Schlick. The Vienna Circle was an exclusive group of scholars that included individuals from multiple fields of study such as philosophy, science and math. These individuals would meet routinely to discuss issues that arose in philosophy and other issues that plagued the world. The movement associated with the circle was commonly referred to as logical positivism or empiricism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6-NqWHsQw -
Published "Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt"
Translated in english as "The Logical Structure of the World" . This books is considered one of Rudolf Carnaps major works. He began writing this piece of literature in 1922, finishing in 1925. In this book he "adopts the position of “methodological solipsism” and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience" (George).
Carnap, Rudolf. Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Felix Meiner, 1928. -
Published "Logische Syntax Der Sprache"
Translated to English, "The Logical Syntax of Language" was published in 1937. The objective of the book was to establish a theory for the logical structure of scientific language.
Carnap, Rudolf. Logische Syntax Der Sprache. Springer, 1937. -
Published "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"
Rudolf published "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" in 1950. This journal was dedicated to philosophy and served as inspiration for for the philosophy field. In the article Rudolf sought to clarify the relation of abstract entities with Empiricism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_-2s8pSGo
Carnap, Rudolf. “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology.” Philosophy of Mathematics, 1950, pp. 241–257., doi:10.1017/cbo9781139171519.013. -
Death