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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1981 in Ronsdorf, German and died September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California, U.S. Carnap was a leading exponent of logical positivism and was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of science, philosophy of language, the theory of probability, inductive logic and modal logic. -
Der Raum
Carnap developed dissertation for the philosophy of space and time. Carnap’s work was influenced by Kantian philosophy. He recognizes the difference between three kinds of theories of space: formal, physical and intuitive. -
The Logical Structure of the World
Der logische Aufbau der Welt, translated as The Logical Structure of the World, is one of Carnap’s major works, published in 1928. In the book he argued that all scientific terms are definable by means of a phenomenalistic language. -
The Logical Syntax of Language
In 1934 he published his second major work, Logische Syntax der Sprache, translated as Logical Syntax of Language. It gives the foundations to his idea that scientific language has a specific formal structure. He introduces his notable principle of tolerance, suggesting that there is no moral in logic
