Papers, 1918-1970.

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Papers, 1918-1970.

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10000 pages of correspondence, notes, and lectures and Carnap's library of 2000 books and 1600 issues of periodicals. Carnap worked in the areas of constructional theories, physicalism, the epistomological foundations of physics and mathematics, the syntactical structure of language, semantics, nodal logic, ontology and probability.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Carnap, Rudolf, 1891-1970

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Born in 1891 in Ronsdorf, Germany, Rudolf Carnap was educated at the Universities of Freiburg and Jena. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics, completing his doctoral thesis, Der Raum, in 1921. Before immigrating to America in 1935, Carnap held positions in Vienna and Prague, where he laid the foundations for his own logical empiricism and participated actively in the discussions of the Vienna Circle. After arriving in the United States, Carnap taught at the University of Chicago until...