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Birth
Rudolf Carnap was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1981. Growing up he studied math, physics, and philosophy -
Vienna Circle
Carnap joined a group of scholars known as the Vienna Circle. He quickly became a leader in this group of mathematicians and philosophers which met to discuss and develop ideas of logical empiricism. Empiricism is the belief that sense-experience and direct observation are the most reliable sources of knowledge. It enforces the analytical view, applying logic and measurability to philosophy -
"Logical Construction of the World" and "Pseudoproblems of Philosophy"
Logical Construction of the World reveals the terminology, definition, and description of empiricism and explains the ‘constitution theory’. It's a complex approach to epistemology and emphasizes that it's possible to describe the world using observation. Pseudoproblems of Philosophy is an essay that claims many theories and philosophical problems were just talk and lacked reality. Carnap, Rudolf. The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy. Open Court Publishing,1928. -
Death
With his published works, his leadership in the Vienna circle, the contributions to the science and semantics, he is known as a great philosopher of the 20th century and one of the creators of logical positivism.
