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Carnap, Rudolf (1891–1970)| German philosopher, in the USA from 1935. He was a member of the Vienna Circle and an exponent of logical positivism, the theory that the only meaningful propositions are those that can be verified empirically. He tried to show that metaphysics arose from a confusion between talk about the world and talk about language. |
| Carnap was born in Wuppertal. He was professor of philosophy at the University of California 1954–62. |
| His books include The Logical Syntax of Language 1934 and Meaning and Necessity 1956. |
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| Among the figures whose writings appear in support of various of Mach's ideas are Mach himself, Albert Einstein, Rudolf Carnap, Paul Feyerabend, and Arthur Fine. Frank, among the original members, and Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap and others. Many people would agree with Wittgenstein, and in particular many philosophers have, for at least some part of their lives, shared his view: Frege, the early Bertrand Russell, the early Rudolf Carnap of the Vienna Circle, Martin Heidegger, Willard Quine, Kripke, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Jerry Fodor, Daniel Dennett. |
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