During the academic year 1940-1941, several giants of
analytic philosophy congregated at Harvard: Bertrand Russell, Alfred Tarski, Rudlof
Carnap, W. V. Quine, Carl Hempel, and Nelson Goodman were all in residence.
This group held regular private meetings, with Carnap, Tarski, and Quine being
the most frequent attendees. Carnap, Tarski, and Quine at Harvard allows the reader to act as a fly on
the wall for their conversations. Carnap took detailed notes during his year at
Harvard. This book includes both a German transcription of these shorthand
notes and an English translation in the appendix section. Carnap’s notes cover
a wide range of topics, but surprisingly, the most prominent question is: if
the number of physical items in the universe is finite (or possibly finite),
what form should scientific discourse, and logic and mathematics in particular,
take? This question is closely connected to an abiding philosophical problem,
one that is of central philosophical importance to the logical empiricists:
what is the relationship between the logico-mathematical realm and the material
realm studied by natural science? Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s attempts to
answer this question involve a number of issues that remain central to
philosophy of logic, mathematics, and science today. This book focuses on three
such issues: nominalism, the unity of science, and analyticity. In short, the
book reconstructs the lines of argument represented in these Harvard discussions,
discusses their historical significance (especially Quine’s break from Carnap),
and relates them when possible to contemporary treatments of these issues.
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2 comentários :
Um trabalho relacionado ao livro do mesmo autor pode ser baixado aqui: http://www.academia.edu/530621/CARNAP_TARSKI_AND_QUINES_YEAR_TOGETHER_DISCUSSIONS_OF_LOGIC_SCIENCE_AND_MATHEMATICS.
Esse trabalho indicado acima na verdade se trata de uma versão um pouco diferente do livro que o post se refere.
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