Rudolf Carnap/Bibliography

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Selected publications

• 1922. Der Raum: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre, Kant-Studien, Ergänzungshefte, no. 56. His Ph.D. thesis.
• 1926. Physikalische Begriffsbildung. Karlsruhe: Braun.
• 1928. Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie (Pseudoproblems of Philosophy). Berlin: Weltkreis-Verlag.
• 1928. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt. Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag. English translation by Rolf A. George, 1967. The Logical Structure of the World: Pseudoproblems in Philosophy. University of California Press.
• 1929. Abriss der Logistik, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Relationstheorie und ihrer Anwendungen. Springer.
• 1934. Logische Syntax der Sprache. English translation 1937, The Logical Syntax of Language. Kegan Paul.
• 1996 (1935). Philosophy and Logical Syntax. Bristol UK: Thoemmes.
• 1939, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. I, no. 3. University of Chicago Press.
• 1942. Introduction to Semantics. Harvard Uni. Press.
• 1943. Formalization of Logic. Harvard Uni. Press.
• 1956 (1947). Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. University of Chicago Press.
• 1950. Logical Foundations of Probability. University of Chicago Press. Pp. 3-15 online.
• 1950. "Empiricism, Semantics, Ontology", Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4: 20-40.
• 1952. The Continuum of Inductive Methods. University of Chicago Press.
• 1958. Introduction to Symbolic Logic with Applications. Dover.
• 1963, "Intellectual Autobiography" in Schilpp (1963: 1-84).
• 1966. Philosophical Foundations of Physics. Martin Gardner, ed. Basic Books. Online excerpt.
• 1971. Studies in inductive logic and probability, Vol. 1. University of California Press.
• 1977. Two essays on entropy. Shimony, Abner, ed. University of California Press.
• 1980. Studies in inductive logic and probability, Vol. 2. Jeffrey, R. C., ed. University of California Press.

Online bibliography. Under construction, with no entries dated later than 1937. Most of Carnap's publications from 1940 onwards can be tracked via the web-based Philosophy Index, to which most academic libraries subscribe.

Other sources

• Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 2000. In Search of Mathematical Roots. Princeton Uni. Press.
• Willard Quine, 1985. The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. MIT Press.
• Richardson, Alan W., 1998. Carnap's construction of the world : the Aufbau and the emergence of logical empiricism. Cambridge Uni. Press.
• Schilpp, P. A., ed., 1963. The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap. LaSalle IL: Open Court.
• Spohn, Wolfgang, ed., 1991. Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• 1991. Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories: Proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• S. Awodey, C. Klein (szerk.): „Carnap Brought Home”, Open Court, 2004.
• R. Ciera: “Carnap and the Vienna Circle”, Edition Rodopi, 1994.
• R. Giere, A.W. Richardson ed. „Origins of Logical Empiricism”, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• G. Restall: „Carnap’s Tolerance, Language Change and Logical Pluralism”, Journal of Philosophy 99, 426–443, 2002. http://www.consequently.org/papers/carnap.pdf
• R. Creath (szerk.) (1990): „Dear Carnap, Dear Van”, University California Press,.
• J. Earman (1993): “Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology”, In Horwitch, P. (ed.).
• G. Irzik, T. Gruenberg (1995): “Carnap and Kuhn: Arch Enemies or Close Allies” Brit. J. Phil. Sci., 46.
• G. Irzik (1999): “A re-evaluation of logical empiricism”, Revista Patagonia de Filosofia, Ano 1, Vol. 1, No. 1. 49-68.
• J. C. P. Oliveira (2002): „Carnap, Kuhn and Revisionism: On the Publication of "Structure" in "Encyclopedia"”, publikálatlan. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000708/
• M. Friedman: "Reconsidering Logical Positivism", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (United Kingdom), 1999.
• J. Proust: „Questions of Form, Logic and the Analytic Proposition from Kant to Carnap”, University of Minnesotta Press, 1986.

A. Bird: „Kuhn, naturalism, and the positivist legacy”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - Part A, 35, 2, 337-356, 2004.

• M. Friedman: "Remarks on the History of Science and the History of Philosophy", in P. Horwich (ed.) "World Changes", pp. 37-54, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993.
• M. Friedman: "On the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and its Philosophical Agenda", Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 239-271, 1998.
• M. Friedman: "Dynamics of Reason", CSLI Publications, 2001.
• M. Friedman: "Kant, Kuhn and the Rationality of Science", Philosophy of Science, 69, 171-190, 2002.
• G. Irzik: "A Re-Evaluation of Logical Empiricism", Revista Patagonia de Filosofia, Ano 1, Vol. 1, pp. 49-68, 1999.
• G. Irzik: „Changing conceptions of Rationality from Logical Empiricism to Postpositivism”, in Logical Empiricism, University of Pittsburgh Press, 325-348, 2003.
• J. C. P. Oliveira: „Carnap, Kuhn and Revisionism: On the Publication of "Structure" in "Encyclopedia"”, forthcoming, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000708/, 2002.
• J. C. P. Oliveira: “Carnap y el Revisionismo Histórico”. In : Vega, M., C. Maldonado y A. Marcos (eds.): Racionalidad Científica y Racionalidad Humana. Valladolid (Espańa): Universidad de Valladolid. ISBN 84-8448-108-5, pp 151-164,2001.
• F. Suppe (ed.): „The Structure of Scientific Theories”, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1974.
• G. Wolters: "Styles in Philosophy: The case of Carnap", in S. Awodey, C. Klein (ed.) "Carnap Bought Home", Open Court, Chicago, 2004.
• S. Awodey, C. Klein (eds.): „Carnap Brought Home”, Open Court, 2004.
• R. Giere, A.W. Richardson ed. ; „Origins of Logical Empiricism”, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• G. Reisch: „Did Kuhn Kill Logical Empiricism?”, Philosophy of Science, 58, 264-277, 1991.
• G. Reisch: „Planning Science: Otto Neurath and the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”, British Journal for History of Science, 27, 153-75, 1994.
• G. Reisch: „Pluralism, Logical Empirism, and the Problem of Pseudoscience”, Philosophy of Science, 65, 333-348, 1998.