From Vienna to Santa Fé, from Oxford to the Eternal City

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Carnap and Language: From Vienna to Santa Fé (in Slovak)
Authors:Hanzel, Igor
Source:Organon F: filozofický casopis, 14(4), 470-497. 28 p. 2007.
Document Type:Journal Article
Subjects:LOGIC
METALANGUAGE
METALOGIC
SEMANTICS
SYNTAX
Persons as Subjects:CARNAP, RUDOLF
CHURCH, ALONZO
Abstract:The paper reconstructs three main stages in the development of Carnap's approach to language in the years 1931-1947. It starts with Carnap's approach to metalogic in his Viennese 'Zirkelprotokolle' (1931) and his 'Logische Syntax der Sprache' (1934) from the point of view of one-level approach to the relation between metalanguage and its object language. It then analyzes Tarski's turn to semantics in his paper presented at the Paris conference in September 1935, as well as the implications of his view for Carnap's approach to semantics from 1935 until 1943. Finally, it analyzes Church's rediscovery of Frege and its impact on Carnap's shift to the extension/intension distinction in his semantics in the years 1943-1947.