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58From ‘Syntax’ to ‘Semantik’ — Carnap’s Inferentialism and Its ProspectsPolish Journal of Philosophy 11 (1): 57-78. 2017.The aim of this paper is to provide context for and historical exegesis of Carnap’s alleged move from syntax to semantics. The Orthodox Received View states that there was a radical break, while the Unorthodox Received View holds that Carnap’s syntactical period already had many significant semantical elements. I will argue that both of them are partly right, both of them contain a kernel of truth: it is true that Carnap’s semantical period started after his Logical Syntax of Language — in one s…Read more
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30Editorial introduction: Philipp Frank, a physicist-turned-philosopherStudies in East European Thought 69 (3): 199-206. 2017.
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36Philipp Frank’s decline and the crisis of logical empiricismStudies in East European Thought 69 (3): 257-276. 2017.The aim of the paper is to consider the narrative that Philipp Frank’s decline in the United States started in the 1940s and 1950s. Though this account captures a kernel of truth, it is not the whole story. After taking a closer look at Frank’s published writings and at his proposed book, one can see how he imagined the reunion of logical empiricism. His approach was centered on sociology and on the sociological aspects of science and knowledge. As I will argue, Frank’s longstanding interest in …Read more
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38Logical Empiricism in International Context (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (1): 198-204. 2018.
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23Aaron Preston , Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 38 (1): 36-38. 2018.
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65The Early Formation of Modal Logic and its Significance: A Historical Note on Quine, Carnap, and a Bit of ChurchHistory and Philosophy of Logic 39 (3): 289-304. 2018.The aim of the paper is to show that W. V. O. Quine's animadversions against modal logic did not get the same attention that is considered to be the case nowadays. The community of logicians focused solely on the technical aspects of C. I. Lewis’ systems and did not take Quine's arguments and remarks seriously—or at least seriously enough to respond. In order to assess Quine's place in the history, however, his relation to Carnap is considered since their notorious break was about the status of …Read more
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20Normal Science and Normal Kuhn. Review of Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions – 50 Years OnAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 6 (2-3): 96-101. 2015.1962 marked an important point in intellectual history not only for historians, philosophers, sociologists and scientists but also for educated laymen. After a long and productive decade Thomas Kuhn published his “Structure of Scientific Revolutions” as Volume 2 Issue 2 of the “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science”, edited (after the death of Otto Neurath) by Rudolf Carnap and Charles Morris. 2012 marked another important date—it was the 50th anniversary of Structure’s first edition. Th…Read more
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11Paul Humphreys, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 37 (2): 62-64. 2017.
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22Gary Kemp and Frederique Janssen-Lauret, Eds., Quine and His Place in History. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 36 (3): 121-123. 2016.
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25From Vienna to Vienna: European Philosophy of Science [Review] (review)Science & Education (7-8): 1-4. 2016.
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21Unifying Historical Perspectives (review)The Berlin Review of Books 2014. 2014.Greg Frost-Arnold’s book is a highly elegant edition and commentary of Carnap’s notes, claiming just as much as he is warranted on the basis of the manuscript and other relevant texts, and formulating his scholarly assumptions very carefully. Along the way he tries to unify the three historiographical strategies: narrative, argumentative and micro-historical.
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26Kuhn, Kuhn, Kuhn: New Wine into Old Bottles?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (4): 601-604. 2017.
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102Metaphilosophy at work – Kripke on reference and existence (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 17 221-226. 2014.Saul Kripke’s new book is the written version of his notorious John Locke Lectures from 1973, entitled Reference and Existence. The book contains the six lectures, the elaborate discussion and application of Kripke’s earlier conception – worked out in Naming and Necessity – to such problems as reference, existence, negative existential claims, ctional characters, semantical and speaker’s reference ‘in order to tie up some loose ends’.
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14A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality (review)Croatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (3): 463-465. 2016.
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17Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe, eds., Ontology After Carnap. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 36 (6): 244-246. 2016.
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883Quine and Quantified Modal Logic – Against the Received ViewOrganon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 22 (4): 518-545. 2015.The textbook-like history of analytic philosophy is a history of myths, re-ceived views and dogmas. Though mainly the last few years have witnessed a huge amount of historical work that aimed to reconsider our narratives of the history of ana-lytic philosophy there is still a lot to do. The present study is meant to present such a micro story which is still quite untouched by historians. According to the received view Kripke has defeated all the arguments of Quine against quantified modal logic …Read more
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26Friedrich Stadler, The Vienna Circle: Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 36 (1): 26-29. 2016.
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33A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism (review)The Berlin Review of Books 2015. 2015.Eino Kaila’s recently translated Human Knowledge: A Classic Statement of Logical Empiricism from 1939 is an important document both in the history of analytic philosophy and the history of logical empiricism in particular. Kaila discusses all the relevant topics that featured in the discussions of the Vienna Circle in the early 1930s and provides a neat summary with his own historical narrative and critical remarks.
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Hungarian Academy of SciencesYoung Research Fellow
Areas of Specialization
General Philosophy of Science |
20th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
Rudolf Carnap |