Carnap’s Ideal of Explication and Naturalism

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Carnap’s Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science....Pages 7-22
Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions....Pages 23-33
Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis....Pages 34-46
Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung....Pages 47-62
Carnap’s Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities : Between Enlightenment and Romanticism....Pages 63-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Carnap’s Conception of Philosophy....Pages 81-95
Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique....Pages 96-116
The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication....Pages 117-130
Explicating ‘Analytic’....Pages 131-143
Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity....Pages 144-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Before Explication....Pages 161-174
Natural Languages, Formal Languages, and Explication....Pages 175-189
Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics....Pages 190-204
The Perils of Pollyanna....Pages 205-224
Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and Its Critics....Pages 225-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-263