Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism

STEVE AWODEY Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, USAJACQUES BOUVERESSE Professor at the Collège de France and a member of the IHPST (Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques), FranceA. W. CARUS Author of numerous papers on CarnapRICHARD CREATH President's Professor of Life Sciences and of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Arizona State University, USAJULIET FLOYD Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Boston University, USAMICHAEL FRIEDMAN Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, USAGOTTFRIED GABRIEL Professor at the University of Jena, GermanyWOLFGANG KIENZLER teaches philosophy at the University of Jena, GermanyTHOMAS MORMANN Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, SpainERICH RECK Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, USAALAN RICHARDSON Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada PHILIPPE DE ROUILHAN 'Directeur de Recherche' at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), France THOMAS UEBEL Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UKMARK WILSON Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, USA

• Series Editor's Foreword Notes on Contributors Notes on References Introduction; P.Wagner PART I: HISTORICAL SITUATION OF CARNAP'S IDEAL OF EXPLICATION Carnap's Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; A.Richardson Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions; G.Gabriel Carnap, Turing and Wittgenstein: Contrasting Notions of Analysis; J.Floyd Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung; J.Bouveresse Carnap's Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism; T.Mormann PART II: CARNAP'S IDEAL OF EXPLICATION: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS AND EXAMPLES Carnap's Conception of Philosophy; W.Kienzler Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique; E.Reck The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication; T.Uebel Explicating 'analytic'; S.Awodey Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity; P.de Rouilhan PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE Before Explication; R.Creath Natural Languages, Formal Systems, and Explication; P.Wagner Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics; M.Friedman The Perils of Pollyanna; M.Wilson Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and its Critics; A.Carus Bibliography Index