Carnapiana, Griceana

A look, Gricean, at Carnapiana


The 1920s.


1922 Der Raum: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftslehre, dissertation, in Kant-Studien, Ergänzungshefte, n. 56

--- on space as synthetic a priori

1925 "Über die Abhängigkeit der Eigenschaften der Raumes von denen der Zeit" in Kant-Studien, 30


--- the correspondence of 'space' (raum) and 'time' (zeit). Spatio-temporal continuants.


1926 Physikalische Begriffsbildung, Karlsruhe : Braun, (Wissen und Wirken ; 39)

--- physicalist as narrowly interpreted: three levels: lower one being 'perceived things or objects and their properties'.


1928 Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie, Berlin : Weltkreis-Verlag

'schein' being Carnap for 'pseudo-'. Literally, 'apparent'. Cfr. "pirots karulize...". Pseudo-sense, nonsense? We don't think so. Uninterpreted at most.


1928 Der Logische Aufbau der Welt, Leipzig : Felix Meiner Verlag (English translation The Logical Structure of the World; Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1967)

aufbau really gives 'house'. Speranza's father being an architect, he knows. Bauhaus. Bauer, architect. So this is, more poetically, the house of the world.



1929 (with Otto Neurath and Hans Hahn) Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung der Wiener Kreis, Vienna : A. Wolf

-- a lovely historical reference: "Wiener Kreis" the Vienna Circle. Cfr. all the refs. by Grice (Prejudices and predilections, Actions and Events, PPQ, to "Vienna")


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

1932 "Die physikalische Sprache als Universalsprache der Wissenschaft" in Erkenntnis, II (English translation The Unity of Science, London : Kegan Paul, 1934)

-- interesting idea of the 'characteristica universalis'.


1934 Logische Syntax der Sprache (English translation The Logical Syntax of Language, New York : Humanities, 1937)

tr. by E. Smeaton, Countess of Zeppelin. Includes the "pirots karulize elatically" manifesto.

1935 Philosophy and Logical Syntax, London : Kegan Paul

1936 "Testability and meaning" in Philosophy of Science, III (1936) and IV (1937)

-- Interesting for the language game including: to prove, to test, to verify. Cfr. Popper, to falsify. Observational vs. theoretical.


1938 "Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science" in International Encyclopaedia of Unified Science, vol. I n. 1, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

1939 "Foundations of Logic and Mathematics" in International Encyclopaedia of Unified Science, vol. I n. 3, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

1942 Introduction to Semantics, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

1943 Formalization of Logic, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

--- Carnap as a formalist. Formal logic, symbolic logic. Grice on formalists vs. informalists. Important topic: the meaning of the connectors. Connectors formally defined, connectors syntactically defined. Pseudo-questions in the search for the 'meaning' of the connectives, etc.


1947 Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

--- Carnap on 'must'. A must here! Cfr. Grice on must, Gr. 2001.

1950 Logical Foundations of Probability, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

-- vis a vis Grice on Kneale. The metaphysical bearing of probability. Induction, primary and secondary.


1952 "Meaning postulates" in Philosophical Studies, III (now in Meaning and Necessity, 1956, 2nd edition)

-- Carnap on 'entailment'. He uses the 'horseshoe' as early as 1937 -- list of symbols online. A meaning postulate formulated with the horseshoe. Moore on entailment. Grice's take on "Bachelors are unmarried males" in "In defense of a dogma" (with Strawson). "Meaning postulates" as correctly defining 'meaning'. The vagaries of the term 'postulate', revived by Johnson/Lakoff to apply to Grice's pragmatic generalisations (as 'conversational postulates' -- and thus in terms of Carnapian entailments).


1952 The Continuum of Inductive Methods, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

1954 Einführung in die Symbolische Logik, Vienna : Springer (English translation Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications, New York : Dover, 1958)

-- Symbolic, rather than formal logic now.

1956 "The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts" in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. I, ed. by H. Feigl and M. Scriven, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press

--- on Ramsey, observational vs. theoretical. Against a more 'theoretical' take by Ramsey (Ramsification), Carnap opts for a 'pragmatic' approach to theoretical concepts. Grice on theoretical concepts in philosophical psychology: "... thinks that..." as theoretical. For Grice, the questions of psychology are _theoretical_, not a matter for mere _analysis_.


1958 "Beobacthungssprache und theoretische Sprache" in Dialectica, XII (English translation "Observation Language and Theoretical Language" in Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist, Dordrecht, Holl. : D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1975)

--- Good in providing the German for 'observation', a tricky English term if ever there was one. It's be-ob-acht-ung in German.


1966 Philosophical Foundations of Physics, ed. by Martin Gardner, New York : Basic Books

--- cfr. Grice on "Eddington's Tables". Surely Grice's knowledge of physics can't compare with Carnap's, but he can always play.

1977 Two Essays on Entropy, ed. by Abner Shimony, Berkeley : University of California Press

Other Sources

1962 Logic and Language: Studies Dedicated to Professor Rudolf Carnap on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, Dordrect, Holl. : D. Reidel Publishing Company

--- Oddly, Grice would contribute to Flew's volume, "Language and Logic"!


1963 The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, ed. by Paul Arthur Schillp, La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Pub. Co.

1970 PSA 1970: Proceedings of the 1970 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association: In Memory of Rudolf Carnap, Dordrect, Holl. : D. Reidel Publishing Company

1971 Analiticità, Significanza, Induzione, ed. by Alberto Meotti e Marco Mondadori, Bologna, Italy : il Mulino

1975 Rudolf Carnap, Logical Empiricist. Materials and Perspectives, ed. by Jaakko Hintikka, Dordrecht, Holl. : D. Reidel Publishing Company

--- Carnap as a "logical" empiricist rather than as a logical 'positivist'. The importance of slogans, or lack thereof!

1986 Joëlle Proust, Questions de Forme: Logique at Proposition Analytique de Kant a Carnap, Paris, France: Fayard (English translation Questions of Forms: Logic and Analytic Propositions from Kant to Carnap, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press)

--- Interesting in that they skip Locke that R. B. Jones and I love: Note Jones's website for Locke on 'trifling propositions' in the Essay of 1690!


1990 Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work, ed. by Richard Creath, Berkeley : University of California Press

--- Quine wrote extensively on Grice, too. Very good excerpts in Chapman's book on Grice. Quine would attend parties at Grice's college, St. John's, etc. This was the hedyday of "Dogmas of Empiricism" -- that gave Carnap (if not Carnap) the 'dogmatic' slur. The fact that Grice came to the defense of the underdog did not help! ('underdog' being Grandy's 'joke').

1991 Maria Grazia Sandrini, Probabilità e Induzione: Carnap e la Conferma come Concetto Semantico, Milano, Italy : Franco Angeli

1991 Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, ed. by Wolfgang Spohn, Dordrecht; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers

1991 Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories: Proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991 Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press; [Konstanz] : Universitasverlag Konstanz

---- Grice cites Reichenbach at some length in his PPQ 1986.

1995 L'eredità di Rudolf Carnap: Epistemologia, Filosofia delle Scienze, Filosofia del Linguaggio, ed. by Alberto Pasquinelli, Bologna, Italy : CLUEB

--- Etc.