Kant's explication and Carnap's explication: The Redde Rationem

International Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-298

  Boniolo, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.5840/ipq200343335     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. It should be noted that the ideal-language style that is common among philosophers of science has a twin, that is, ordinary-language style, which is more common among philosophers of language. The latter style emphasizes ordinary language and its logical structure. With reference to these topics, see R. Rorty, "Introduction," in The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967)
2. and M. Dummett, Ursprünge der analytischen Philosophie (Frankfurt-am-Main: Surhkamp Verlag, 1988)
3. With reference to Kant's works, I will proceed as follows: (1) for the Kritik der reinen Vernunft, I will use Norman Kemp Smith's translation, Critique of Pure Reason (London: Macmillan, 1989), but (according to the usual custom) I will also indicate the original pages, citing the Werkausgabe edition (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1968, Bände III und IV)
4. for the Untersuchungen über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze der natürlichen Theologie und Moral and the Metaphysischen Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft, I will quote directly from the German texts, even if, for the first, I will refer to the edition within Kants Werke (Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1968, Band II, pp. 273-302) and for the second the edition printed in Werkausgabe (Band IX)
5. R. Carnap, Logical Foundations of Probability (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950)
6. Carnap, Logical Foundations of Probability, 3
7. One of the few relevant works on the "explication of explication" is J. F. Hanna, "An Explication of 'Explication,'" Philosophy of Science 35 (1968) 28-44
8. In order to have an idea of what I am mentioning, it suffices to glance at the discussion about Hempel's explication of the concept of "qualitative confirmation" or at Carnap's explication of the concept of "quantitative confirmation" or at his explication of the concept of "explanation." With reference to these topics, see G. Boniolo and P. Vidali, Filosofia della scienza (Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 1999)
9. Carnap is referring to D. Runes, Dictionary of Philosophy (New York: Philosophical Library, 1942-1960)
10. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 577, B741
11. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 588, B758-59
12. Kant, Metaphysischen Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft, ix: "Ich behaupte aber, dass in jeder besonderen Naturlehre nur so viel eigentliche Wissenschaft angetroffen werden können, als darin Mathematik anzutreffen ist."
13. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B753. It should be noted that the English translation is somewhat misleading and without irony. Kemp Smith translates "Meistern in dieser Kunst" as "experts in mathematics" (584), which may be read in a laudatory sense