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This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this volume will interest graduate students of the philosophy of language and logic, as well as professional philosophers, historians of analytic philosophy, and philosophically inclined logicians.

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Readable and concise outline
One of Carnap's perhaps unparalleled strengths amongst 20th century (and even among so-called Anglo-American-Quasi-German) philosophers is his commitment to fluid writing and clear, comprehensive presentations. Philosophy and Logical Syntax is one of this author's most readable works, and that would be saying a lot. While the work hardly touches the surface of what Carnap was up to, it presents the gist of what he was working on. Beginning with the "elimination of metaphysics" in highly condensed form, Carnap then proceeds to develop his argument that philosophy is logical analysis. He concludes with the extremely simplified but nevertheless important elements of his philosophy of science. While the work fails to do justice to Carnap's early works, it nevertheless presents an outline of what he was getting at to the reader new to Carnap. ... Read more

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As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Carnap’s aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work endeavors to work out a way in which the observation statements required for verification are not private to the observer. The work shows the strong influence of Wittgenstein, Russell, and Frege. This, the first English translation, was revised by Carnap for this edition. ... Read more

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A nice small book
This is a nica, small book of Carnap. It may be interesting for the layman, since it is not so technical. It is mainly about physicalism: the physical reduction of psychology to physics, which is closelly related to behaviourism.
All this is put in the usual framework of logical positivistic views from the 30's. ... Read more

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Rudolf Carnap gilt unbestritten als einer der eminentesten Vertreter des logischen Empirismus. Im Band 2 der Reihe Texte zur Wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung" werden alle wesentlichen Aspekte seiner Philosophie zusammenhängend dargestellt und kritisch analysiert. Lothar Krauth beurteilt dabei Carnaps Bedeutung vor einem breiten, philosophiehistorischen Hintergrund. Nicht nur sein Einfluß und seine Vordenkerrolle im Wiener Kreis werden diskutiert, sondern auch die mehrfache Wandlung in Carnaps Denken. So erklärt sich manche allzu große Vereinfachung, mancher Radikalismus als erster Ansatz, der später überarbeitet, zu einem tragfähigen Bestandteil kommender analytischer Sprachtheorie ausgebaut wurde. ... Read more