Conventions in the Aufbau

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 381-397

  Uebel, Thomas E ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1542565347     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09608789608570947     Document Type: Note

References (19)

1. Rudolf Carnap, Der logische Aufbau der Welt, Berlin: Bernary, 1928, transl. by R. A. George, The Logical Structure of the World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. References to this work will appear in the text by paragraph numbers
2. For instance, Michael Friedman, 'Carnap's Aufbau Reconsidered', Nous 21 (1987) 521- 45 and Alan Richardson, 'How Not to Russell Carnap's Aufbau', in PSA 1990, vol. 1, ed. by A. Fine,M. Forbes, L. Wessel, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, 1990, pp. 3-14
3. Robert G. Hudson, 'Empirical Constraints in the Aufbau', History of Philosophy Quarterly 11 (1994) 237-51. References to this paper will appear in the text by page number
4. And only that. Note the list of types of interpretations of the Aufbau in C. Ulises Moulines, 'Making Sense of Carnap's Aufbau', in Erkenntnis 35 (1991) 263-86, at 264. Specifications of the non-foundationalist Carnap are already available in the literature, of course; since Hudson, however, chose to focus only on a few select papers - namely, those cited in note 2 plus Michael Friedman and William Demopoulos, 'Critical Notice: Bertrand Russell's The Analysis of Matter; Its Historical Context and Contemporary Interest', Philosophy of Science 52 (1985) 621-39 and Michael Friedman, 'The Re- Evaluation of Logical Positivism', Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991) 505-19 - an answer to his neo-traditionalist charge requires that some of these characterisations and further particulars are brought together in a suitable fashion
5. For this distinction see Ernest Sosa, 'The Raft and the Pyramid', Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5 (1980), repr. in Sosa, Knowledge in Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
6. Karl Popper, 'The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics', in P. A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, La Salle: Open Court, 1963, pp. 183-226, at 194
7. Thomas E. Uebel, Overcoming Logical Positivism from Within. The Emergence of Neurath's Naturalism in the Vienna Circle's Protocol Sentence Debate, Amsterdam- Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1992, pp. 35 and 173
8. Guido Küng, Ontologie und logistische Analyse der Sprache, Wien: Springer, 1963, rev. ed. transl. by E. C. M. Mays, Ontology and the Logistical Analysis of Language, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1967, pp. 89-90
9. Thomas A. Ryckman, 'Designation and Convention. A Chapter of Early Logical Empiricism', in PSA 1990, vol. 2, ed. by A. Fine, M. Forbes & L. Wessel, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association, 1991, pp. 149-58, at 157; see also Uebel, op. cit., pp. 47-9
10. Friedman, 'Aufbau Reconsidered', op. cit., p. 526; see also the work of Alberto Coffa, for instance, 'Idealism and the Aufbau', in N. Rescher, ed., The Heritage of Logical Positivism, New York; University Press of America, 1985, pp. 133-56, esp. p. 148, and 'From Geometry to Tolerance: Sources of Conventionalism in Nineteenth-Century Geometry', in R. G. Colodny, ed., From Quarks to Quasars, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, pp. 3-70, esp. p. 59
11. Michael Friedman, 'Epistemology in the Aufbau', Synthese 93 (1992) 15-59, at p. 39
12. Alan Richardson, 'Logical Idealism and Carnap's Construction of the World', Synthese 93 (1992) 59-93, at p. 78; compare the Aufbau, §136
13. M. Friedman, 'Epistemology in the Aufbau', op. cit., p. 22; cf. Aufbau §§126-28
14. Richard Creath, 'Carnap's Conventionalism', Synthese 93 (1992) 141-67, at p. 146
15. Thomas Uebel, 'Neurath vs. Carnap: Naturalism vs. Rational Reconstructionism', History of Philosophy Quarterly 9 (1992) 445-70, at p. 459, quoted in Hudson, op. cit., p. 246
16. Uebel, Overcoming, op. cit., pp. 89-94
17. Rudolf Camap, 'Über Protokollsätze', Erkenntnis 3 (1932/33) 215-28, transl. by R. Creath and R. Nollan, 'On Protocol Sentences' in Nous 21 (1987) 457-70, at p. 467, and 'Testability and Meaning', Philosophy of Science 3 (1936) 419-71 and 4 (1937) 1- 40, at p. 13
18. See Thomas E. Uebel, 'Rational Reconstruction as Elucidation? Carnap in the Early Protokol Sentence Debate', Synthese 93 (1992) 107-40, at p. 129, for how this may be related to ongoing Wittgensteinian issue of the effability of logical form
19. Friedman, 'Epistomology', op. cit., p. 45