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    Although logicism played a significant role in Carnap's philosophical thinking, the relation of his philosophy of mathematics to the main tenets of the logicist tradition is complex and variable. is paper examines one aspect of this relation by discussing the following question: What elements of Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language, if any at all, indicate a real commitment to that tradition? It will be shown that although important aspects of Frege-Russell logicism are incorporated into the fram…Read more
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    Die Verteidigung des Logizismus: Carnaps Versuch von 1930
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 15 (1): 417-438. 2012.
    According to Carnap an account of the nature of mathematics, both pure and applied, must include the thesis that mathematical truths are devoid of factual content. He first formulated this thesis around 1930 and in its defence attempted to combine the reduction of mathematics to logic undertaken in the Principia with Wittgenstein’s insights into the nature of logic. In this paper I will show that this synthesis faces serious difficulties. Thus, it plays, with good reason, no longer a role in Car…Read more
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    Taking the History of Mathematics Seriously
    Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 38 (94): 15-28. 2009.