Rudolf Carnap
Hannes Leitgeb, André Carus,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Mar 02, 2020
It's hard to imagine the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy not having an article on Rudolf Carnap until now, but this is a new article, so there it is. Carnap is my favourite of the logical positivists. The Logical Syntax of Language totally appealed to me, as a person who likes all of their sentences to make sense. His treatment of probability, a nice contrast to the usual frequency interpretation (which is not wrong, just different) also appealed to me. To me, Carnap lays the groundwork for important developments in later years, such as information theory. The Semantic Web is in many ways Carnap's vision realized in code. And of course it is Carnap to whom Quine is (mostly) responding when he criticizes the dogmas of empiricism.
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