Carnap’s Ideal of Explication and Naturalism

1. Introduction
Pierre Wagner

Part I. Historical Situation of Carnap’s Ideal of Explication

2. Carnap’s Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy
of Science
Alan Richardson

3. Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions
Gottfried Gabriel

4. Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Turing: Contrasting Notions of Analysis
Juliet Floyd

5. Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung
Jacques Bouveresse

6. Carnap’s Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities : Between Enlightenment and Romanticism
Thomas Mormann

Part II. Carnap’s Ideal of Explication: Critical Assessments and Examples

7. Carnap’s Conception of Philosophy
Wolfgang Kienzler

8. Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique
Erich Reck

9. The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication
Thomas Uebel

10. Explicating ‘Analytic’
Steve Awodey

Part II. Carnap’s Ideal of Explication: Critical Assessments and Examples

11. Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity
Philippe Rouilhan

12. Before Explication
Richard Creath

13. Natural Languages, Formal Languages, and Explication
Pierre Wagner

14. Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics
Michael Friedman

15. The Perils of Pollyanna
Mark Wilson

16. Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and Its Critics
A. W. Carus

Avainsanat: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Logic, Analytic Philosophy