Carl Gustav Hempel
German philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox .
Carl Gustav Hempel's Published Works
Published Works
- Studies in the Logic of Explanation (1948) (2507)
- Aspects of Scientific Explanation. (1966) (2499)
- Philosophy of Natural Science (1966) (1737)
- Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science (1966) (1346)
- The Function of General Laws in History (1942) (945)
- Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science (1952) (712)
- I.—STUDIES IN THE LOGIC OF CONFIRMATION (II.) (1945) (464)
- The theoretician's dilemma: a study in the logic of theory construction (1958) (153)
- Provisoes: A problem concerning the inferential function of scientific theories (1988) (146)
- Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel (1969) (112)
- On the "standard conception" of scientific theories (1970) (107)
- A purely syntactical definition of confirmation (1943) (106)
- Maximal Specificity and Lawlikeness in Probabilistic Explanation (1968) (106)
- On the Nature of Mathematical Truth (1945) (97)
- On the Logical Positivists' Theory of Truth (1935) (95)
- Comments on Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking (1980) (89)
- Selected Philosophical Essays (2000) (67)
- Valuation and Objectivity in Science (1983) (67)
- Frontiers of science and philosophy (1963) (65)
- 1. The Logical Analysis of Psychology (1980) (65)
- A Definition of "Degree of Confirmation" (1945) (63)
- Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1976) (61)
- Geometry and Empirical Science (1945) (59)
- Inductive inconsistencies (2004) (54)
- The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empiricist Construal (1973) (52)
- The Concept of Cognitive Significance: A Reconsideration (1951) (50)
- Science and Human Values (1960) (45)
- The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality (2001) (42)
- Vagueness and Logic (1939) (34)
- THE WHITE SHOE: NO RED HERRING (1967) (31)
- The Verifiability Theory of Meaning (1951) (31)
- Some Remarks on 'Facts' and Propositions (1935) (28)
- Homage to Rudolf Carnap (1970) (24)
- Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. A Tribute on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Essays by Donald Davidson [and Others] Edited by Nicholas Rescher. -- (1969) (24)
- Turns in the evolution of the problem of induction (1981) (22)
- A Philosopher's Philosopher of Science. (Book Reviews: Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science) (1966) (21)
- Sense and Nonsense in Operationism (1960) (19)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: On the Cognitive Status and the Rationale of Scientific Methodology (1988) (16)
- Reflections on Nelson Goodman's: The Structure of Appearance (1953) (16)
- Rudolf Carnap, logical empiricist (2004) (12)
- The Philosophy Of Carl G. Hempel (1966) (12)
- Review: Hans Reichenbach, Philosophic Foundations of quantum Mechanics (1945) (11)
- Hans Reichenbach remembered (1991) (11)
- Kuhn and Salmon on Rationality and Theory Choice (1983) (10)
- Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science (1983) (10)
- A NOTE ON THE PARADOXES OF CONFIRMATION (1946) (10)
- The old and the new ‘Erkenntnis’ (1975) (10)
- A purely topological form of non-Aristotelian logic (1937) (9)
- Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments (1993) (7)
- Erkenntnis : an international journal of analytic philosophy (1982) (7)
- Review: Morton G. White, The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism (1951) (7)
- A Note on Semantic Realism (1950) (6)
- Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy. Recollections and Reflections (1993) (6)
- Some Remarks on Empiricism (1936) (6)
- On the logical form of probability-statements (1937) (4)
- The Irrelevance of the Concept of Truth for the Critical Appraisal of Scientific Theories (2000) (4)
- Valuation and Objectivity in Science in Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. (1983) (4)
- Empirical Statements And Falsifiability (1958) (3)
- Dispositional Explanation and the Covering-Law Model: Response to Laird Addis (1974) (3)
- On a Claim by Skyrms concerning Lawlikeness and Confirmation (1968) (3)
- Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Stegmüller on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, June 3rd, 1983 (1983) (3)
- Sellars Wilfrid. Language, rules and behavior. John Dewey: philosopher of science and freedom , a symposium, edited by Hook Sidney, The Dial Press, New York 1950, pp. 289–315. (1951) (3)
- Philosophy and Analysis (1956) (3)
- Review: Hans Reichenbach, Nomological Statements and Admissible Operations (1955) (3)
- Review: Maria Kokoszynska, What Means "Relativity of Truth"?; Maria Kokoszynska, A Refutation of the Relativism of Truth (1953) (2)
- Alf Ross. Imperatives and logic. Theoria , vol. 7 (1941), pp. 53–71. (1941) (2)
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1975) (2)
- Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism: Selected Essays of Arnold Isenberg (1974) (2)
- Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Essays in Honour of Carl G. Hempel on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, January 8th, 1985 (1985) (2)
- Philosophy of Natural Science.@@@The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.@@@Galileo: A Philosophical Study. (1975) (2)
- The Vienna Circle and the Metamorphoses of Its Empiricism (2000) (2)
- Review: Arne Naess, Toward a Theory of Interpretation and Preciseness (1950) (2)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: Schlick and Neurath: Foundation vs. Coherence in Scientific Knowledge (2000) (2)
- Review: W. V. Quine, Ontology and Ideology (1952) (1)
- Review: Wilfrid Sellars, On the Logic of Complex Particulars; Wilfrid Sellars, Particulars; William P. Alston, Particulars-Bare and Qualified (1958) (1)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: Empiricism in the Vienna Circle and in the Berlin Society for Scientific Philosophy: Recollections and Reflections (2000) (1)
- Coherence and Morality (1965) (1)
- Review: Clarence Irving Lewis, An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (1948) (1)
- Anders Wedberg. The logical construction of the world. A critical analysis of Rudolf Carnap's Der logische Aufbau der Welt. Theoria , vol. 10 (1944), pp. 216–246. (1948) (1)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: Rudolf Carnap: Logical Empiricist (2000) (1)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: The Logical Analysis of Psychology (2000) (1)
- Review: Rudolf Carnap, Formalization of Logic (1943) (1)
- Review: Anders Wedberg, The Logical Construction of the World. A Critical Analysis of Rudolf Carnap's Der Logische Aufbau der Welt (1948) (1)
- Logical Empiricism (2004) (1)
- Quine W. V.. Ontology and ideology. Philosophical studies, vol. 2 (1951), pp. 11–15. (1952) (1)
- Review: Alonzo Church, Propositions and Sentences; Nelson Goodman, A World of Individuals; I. M. Bochenski, The Problem of Universals (1957) (1)
- Scheffler Israel. On synonymy and indirect discourse. Philosophy of science, vol. 22 (1955), pp. 39–44. (1957) (1)
- Reply to David L. Miller's Comments (1948) (1)
- Review: Sigmund Koch, The Logical Character of the Motivation Concept (1941) (1)
- Review: Arthur Pap, The Philosophical Analysis of Natural Language (1951) (1)
- White Morton G.. The analytic and the synthetic: an untenable dualism. John Dewey: philosopher of science and freedom, a symposium, edited by Hook Sidney, The Dial Press, New York 1950, pp. 316–330. (1951) (1)
- Review: Alf Ross, Imperatives and Logic (1941) (0)
- Bergmann Gustav. Remarks concerning the epistemology of scientific empiricism. Philosophy of science, vol. 9 (1942), pp. 283–293. (1942) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: TRUTH (2000) (0)
- Review: Bent Schultzer, Empiricism as a Logical Problem (1951) (0)
- Ayer A. J.. Truth. Revue Internationale de philosophic, vol. 7 (1953), pp. 183–200. (1955) (0)
- Carnap Rudolf. Truth and confirmation. Readings in philosophical analysis , edited by Feigl Herbert and Sellars Wilfrid, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 1949, pp. 119–127. (1952) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: On the Content of Probability Statements (2000) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: PROBABILITY (2000) (0)
- Buchler Justus. Peirce's theory of logic. The journal of philosophy, vol. 36 (1939), pp. 197–215. (1939) (0)
- Næss Arne. Toward a theory of interpretation and preciseness. Theoria , vol. 15 (1949), pp. 220–241. (1950) (0)
- Ajdukiewicz Kazimierz. Epistemology and semiotic. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948), North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 607–609. (1950) (0)
- Leonard Linsky. A note on Carnap's “Truth and confirmation.” Philosophical studies , vol. 1 (1950), pp. 81–82. - Rudolf Carnap. Rejoinder to Linsky. Philosophical studies , vol. 1 (1950), p. 83. (1952) (0)
- Review: Leonard Linsky, A Note on Carnap's "Truth and Confirmation."; Rudolf Carnap, Rejoinder to Linsky (1952) (0)
- Review: C. J. Ducasse, Philosophy as a Science, Its Matter and its Method (1941) (0)
- C. West Churchman. Carnap's ‘On inductive logic.” Philosophy of science , vol. 13 (1946), pp. 339–342. (1947) (0)
- Wick Warner Arms. Metaphysics and the new logic. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1942, xiii + 202 pp. (1943) (0)
- von Wright Georg Henrik. The logical problem of induction. Acta philosophica fennica, vol. 3. Societas Philosophica, Helsinki. Distributed by Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki (Helsingfors) 1941, 258 pp. (1941) (0)
- Harris Marjorie S.. Symbolic logic and esthetics. The journal of philosophy, vol. 37 (1940), pp. 533–546. (1940) (0)
- Koch Sigmund. The logical character of the motivation concept. Psychological review, vol. 48 (1941), pp. 15–38, 127–154. (1941) (0)
- Bork Alfred Morton. Methodology of the empirical sciences. Philosophy of science, vol. 26 (1959), pp. 31–34. (1962) (0)
- Gregg John R.. The language of taxonomy. An application of symbolic logic to the study of classificatory systems. Columbia University Press, New York 1954, ix + 70 pp. (1956) (0)
- Quine W. V.. Logic based on inclusion and abstraction. The journal of symbolic logic, Bd. 2 (1937), pp. 145–152. (1938) (0)
- Review: G. Vaccarino, Dimensions of Signs and Metascience (1950) (0)
- Supplementary remarks on the form of probability-statements, suggested by the discussion. (Participants: Braithwaite, Clay, v. Dantzig, Ditchburn, Lindenbaum, Mannoury, Storer, Waismann.) (1937) (0)
- 8 RECENT PROBLEMS OF INDUCTION (0)
- Review: Alfred Morton Bork, Methodology of the Empirical Sciences (1962) (0)
- Review: Georg Henrik von Wright, On Confirmation (1950) (0)
- Quine W. V.. Designation and existence. The journal of philosophy, vol. 36 (1939), pp. 701–709. (1940) (0)
- Berg Jan. Some problems concerning disposition concepts. Theoria (Lund), vol. 26 (1960), pp. 3–16. (1960) (0)
- Pap Arthur. Reduction-sentences and open concepts. Methodos, vol. 5 (1953), pp. 3–28.Caracciolo A. and Somenzi V.. Discussione. English. Methodos, vol. 5 (1953), p. 29.Pap A.. Reply. Methodos, vol. 5 (1953), pp. 29–30. (1955) (0)
- Review: Rudolf Carnap, Remarks on Induction and Truth; Felix Kaufmann, On the Nature of Inductive Inference; Rudolf Carnap, Rejoinder to Mr. Kaufmann's Reply (1946) (0)
- Review: Paul Wienpahl, Dewey's Theory of Language and Meaning (1951) (0)
- McGill V. J.. Concerning the laws of contradiction and excluded middle. Philosophy of science, vol. 6 (1939), pp. 196–211. (1939) (0)
- Review: Israel Scheffler, On Synonymy and Indirect Discourse (1957) (0)
- Review: Gustav Bergmann, Remarks on Realism (1947) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: On the Logical Positivists' Theory of Truth (2000) (0)
- Books Received (1953) (0)
- Review: W. V. Quine, Designation and Existence (1940) (0)
- Review: E. W. Beth, Logistic as a Continuation of Traditional Formal Logic (1941) (0)
- Pap Arthur. The philosophical analysis of natural language. Methodos, vol. 1 (1949) pp. 344–369. (1951) (0)
- Wienpahl Paul. Dewey's theory of language and meaning. John Dewey: philosopher of science and freedom , a symposium, edited by Hook Sidney, The Dial Press, New York 1950, pp. 271–288. (1951) (0)
- Unity of science forum 1938 September (1938) (0)
- Review: Justus Buchler, Peirce's Theory of Logic (1939) (0)
- Review: Jan Berg, A Note on Dispositional Concepts; Jan Berg, A Note on Reduction Sentences (1958) (0)
- Philosophy of mathematics: On the nature of mathematical truth (1984) (0)
- Inhaltsangabe zu Brown: A methodological consideration of the problem of psychometrics (1934) (0)
- Review: Gustav Bergmann, Remarks Concerning the Epistemology of Scientific Empiricism (1942) (0)
- Georg Henrik von Wright. On confirmation. Actes du X me Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948) , North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam1949, pp. 794–796. (1950) (0)
- Fréchet Maurice. The diverse definitions of probability. The journal of unified science (Erkenntnis) vol. 8 (1939), pp. 7–23. (1940) (0)
- Review: Stephen Toulmin, What Kind of Discipline is Logic? (1955) (0)
- Review: John R. Gregg, The Language of Taxonomy. An Application of Symbolic Logic to the Study of Classificatory Systems (1956) (0)
- Comments on Taylor's Theses (1954) (0)
- Larguier Everett H.. Brouwerian philosophy of mathematics. Scripta mathematica, vol. 7 (for 1940, pub. 1941), pp. 69–78. (1941) (0)
- Pap Arthur. Analytic truth and “implicit definitions.” Actes du XIème Congrès International de Philosophie, Volume V, Logique, analyse philosophique, philosophie des mathématiques, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1953, and Éditions E. Nauwelaerts, Louvain 1953, pp. 151–155. (1955) (0)
- Review: Jean Piaget, Logic and Psychology (1960) (0)
- Barrett William. On Dewey's logic. The philosophical review , vol. 50 (1941), pp. 305–315. (1941) (0)
- Review: H. P. Evans, S. C. Kleene, A Postulational Basis for Probability (1939) (0)
- SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: (2004) (0)
- Farber Marvin. Logical systems and the principles of logic. Philosophy of science, vol. 9 (1942), pp. 40–54. (1942) (0)
- Review: Marjorie S. Harris, Symbolic Logic and Esthetics (1940) (0)
- Bergmann Gustav and Spence Kenneth W.. Operationism and theory in psychology. Psychological review, vol. 48 (1941), pp. 1–14. (1941) (0)
- Langford C. H.. Note on a device of Quine and Goodman. The journal of symbolic logic , vol. 6 (1941), pp. 154–155. (1942) (0)
- Review: D. J. O'Connor, Some Consequences of Professor A. J. Ayer's Verification Principle (1950) (0)
- Review: Jan Berg, Some Problems Concerning Disposition Concepts (1960) (0)
- Review: C. West Churchman, Carnap's "On Inductive Logic." (1947) (0)
- Schultzer Bent. Empiricism as a logical problem. Theoria, vol. 15 (1949), pp. 298–314. (1951) (0)
- Review: William Barrett, On Dewey's Logic (1941) (0)
- Review: Arthur Pap, Analytic Truth and "Implicit Definitions." (1955) (0)
- Review: A. J. Ayer, Truth (1955) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: MEMOIRS (2000) (0)
- Kaila Eino. Wenn .. so ... Theoria, vol. 11 (1945), pp. 88–98. (1949) (0)
- Review: Maria Kokoszynska, On a Certain Condition of a Semantical Theory of Science (1950) (0)
- Review: Marvin Farber, Logical Systems and the Principles of Logic (1942) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: Dates (2000) (0)
- Review: Rudolf Carnap, Truth and Confirmation (1952) (0)
- Review: Thomas Storer, The Logic of Value Imperatives (1946) (0)
- Review: Thomas A. Goudge, Science and Symbolic Logic (1943) (0)
- Piaget Jean. Logic and psychology. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1953, xix + 48 pp. (1960) (0)
- Review: Sigismond Zawirski, Observations sur la Methode des Sciences de la Nature (1950) (0)
- Review: Gustav Bergmann, A Note on Ontology (1952) (0)
- Kraft Victor. Der Positivismus. Studium generale, vol. 7 (1954), pp. 73–79. (1955) (0)
- Bergmann Gustav. Remarks on realism. Philosophy of science, vol. 13 (1946), pp 261–273. (1947) (0)
- Broad C. D.. Hr. von Wright on the logic of induction. Mind , n.s. vol. 53 (1944), pp. 1–24, 97–119, 193–214. (1944) (0)
- Review: Paul Henle, The Status of Emergence (1942) (0)
- List of officers and members of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1945) (0)
- Review: J. H. Woodger, Science Without Properties (1952) (0)
- List of officers and members of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1964) (0)
- Review: Glenn Edward Dexter, The Calculus of Non-Contradiction (1943) (0)
- G. Vaccarino. Dimensions of signs and metascience. Actes du X me Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948) , North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam1949, pp. 668–670. (1950) (0)
- Review: H. B. Curry, Languages and Formal Systems (1950) (0)
- Review: Wilfrid Sellars, Language, Rules and Behavior (1951) (0)
- Review: Gustav Bergmann, Kenneth W. Spence, Operationism and Theory in Psychology (1941) (0)
- Dexter Glenn Edward. The calculus of non-contradiction. American journal of mathematics , vol. 65 (1943), pp. 171–178. (1943) (0)
- Review: W. V. Quine, Logic Based on Inclusion and Abstraction (1938) (0)
- Review: V. J. McGill, Concerning the Laws of Contradiction and Excluded Middle (1939) (0)
- A Definition of “Degree of Confirmation”(with P. Oppenheim) (2000) (0)
- Curry H.B.. Languages and formal systems. Actes du Xme Congrès International de Philosophie (Amsterdam, 11–18 août, 1948)—Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Philosophy (Amsterdam, August 11–18, 1948) , North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam 1949, pp. 770–772. (1950) (0)
- Review: Everett H. Larguier, Brouwerian Philosophy of Mathematics (1941) (0)
- List of officers and members of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1965) (0)
- Eighth meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1946) (0)
- Review: Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Epistemology and Semiotic (1950) (0)
- Selected Philosophical Essays: METHODOLOGY (2000) (0)
- The significance of coal and other solid fuels for the requirements of the energy economy. I - The present and future significance of solid and other fuels for the world and particularly Western Europe (1982) (0)
- Review: Paul Weiss, The Logic of Semantics; Ernest Nagel, Operational Analysis as an Instrument for the Critique of Linguistic Signs; Andrew Ushenko, The Problem of Semantics (1942) (0)
- Review: Israel Scheffler, An Inscriptional Approach to Indirect Quotation (1957) (0)
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