The Cambridge Companion to Carnap

Richard Creath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University. He is co-editor with Jane Maienschein of Biology and Epistemology (2000). Michael Friedman is Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. He is editor and translator of Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004).

• Preface: Carnap's posthumous career Richard Creath; Introduction: Carnap's revolution in philosophy Michael Friedman; 1. Carnap's intellectual development A. W. Carus; 2. Geometrical leifmotifs in Carnap's early philosophy Thomas Mormann; 3. Carnap and Frege Gottfried Gabriel; 4. Carnap and Husserl Thomas Ryckman; 5. Carnap, Russell, and the external world Christopher Pincock; 6. The Aufbau and the rejection of metaphysics Michael Friedman; 7. Carnap and the Vienna Circle: rational reconstructionism refined Thomas Uebel; 8. Carnap and modern logic Erich H. Reck; 9. Tolerance and logicism: logical syntax and the philosophy of mathematics Thomas Ricketts; 10. Carnap's quest for analyticity: the studies in semantics Steve Awodey; 11. Carnap on the rational reconstruction of scientific theories William Demopoulos; 12. Carnap on probability and induction S. L. Zabell; 13. Carnapian pragmatism Alan Richardson; 14. Quine's challenge to Carnap Richard Creath.

"...New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Carnap." --Mathematical Reviews