Gricean Look at Carnap Biblio

This is a further look at some of the later publications by Carnap too.


1922. Der Raum: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre, Kant-Studien, Ergänzungshefte, no. 56. His Ph.D. thesis.

--- We have discussed this. The Space as a synthetic-apriori category in Kant. The fact that Carnap narrows the focus to 'wissenschaftslehre' suggests he may be into Kant's rather dogmatic presumption that Newton had to be right regardless (as he wasn't).


1926. Physikalische Begriffsbildung. Karlsruhe: Braun.

This is about 'physics' rather than physicalism, which is usually understood more narrowly (as Carnap will, in other publications) to deal with third-person reports of mental ascriptions of behaviour ("He is thinking of a platter of spaghetti"). This one touches on phenomenalism rather in the sections on 'perceived objects and their properties'. This is the lowest level (qualitative) from which Carnap raises to quantitative and abstract higher levels.


1928. Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie (Pseudoproblems of Philosophy). Berlin: Weltkreis-Verlag.

Shows his concern with methodological questions. Pseudoproblems will become in linguistic key his pseudo-statemens. E.g. Heidegger, Nothing noths.


1928. Der Logische Aufbau der Welt. Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag. English translation by Rolf A. George, 1967. The Logical Structure of the World. Pseudoproblems in Philosophy. University of California Press.

1929. Abriss der Logistik, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Relationstheorie und ihrer Anwendungen. Springer.

1934. Logische Syntax der Sprache. English translation 1937, The Logical Syntax of Language. Kegan Paul. This was tr. By A. Smeaton, countess of Zeppelin, and includes the charming, "Pirots karulize elatically; A is a pirot; thus A karulizes elatically". Formal calculus. Formation rules, etc.

1996 (1935). Philosophy and Logical Syntax. Bristol UK: Thoemmes. Excerpt.

1939, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. I, no. 3. University of Chicago Press.

1942. Introduction to Semantics. Harvard Uni. Press.

1943. Formalization of Logic. Harvard Uni. Press.

1956 (1947). Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. University of Chicago Press.

1950. Logical Foundations of Probability. University of Chicago Press. Pp. 3-15 online.

1950. "Empiricism, Semantics, Ontology", Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4: 20-45.

1952. The Continuum of Inductive Methods. University of Chicago Press.

1958. Introduction to Symbolic Logic with Applications. Dover.

1963, "Intellectual Autobiography" in Schilpp (1963: 1-84). Vide Roger Bishop Jones, and ch. ii of Bishop Roger Jones and J. L. Speranza.

1966. Philosophical Foundations of Physics. Martin Gardner, ed. Basic Books. Online excerpt.

1971. Studies in inductive logic and probability, Vol. 1. University of California Press.

1977. Two essays on entropy. Shimony, Abner, ed. University of California Press.

1980. Studies in inductive logic and probability, Vol. 2. Jeffrey, R. C., ed. University of California Press.

2000. Untersuchungen zur Allgemeinen Axiomatik. Edited from unpublished manuscript by T. Bonk and J. Mosterín. Darmstadt: Wissenschftliche Buchgesellschaft. 167 pp. ISBN 3-534-14298-5.

------ Pirot, you've gone a long way!