PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 00:31:51
• Published: 2012-12-07 18:01

On Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928). What can we know? Carnap thinks that all the various spheres of knowledge are logically interrelated, that you can translate sentences about any of these into sentences about sets of basic, momentary experiences. This book, aka the Aufbau, is his attempt to sketch out how this system of linguistic reduction can work (it doesn't). With guest Matt Teichman. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.