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Carnap's machist "phase"

Ryoichi ItagakiJohn BlackmoreShogo Tanaka

pp. 159-186

Abstract

Rudolf Carnap was born in 1891 in Ronsdorf near Barmen in Northwest Germany. He was the 14th and last child of Johann Sebulon Carnap (1826–1898). The father was a self-made man in the weaving business who became wealthy late in life, which after the death of his first two wives allowed him to marry (1887) into a well-educated familyl which included a prominent educator and archaeologist.2 After his death, Anna née Dörpfeld, his third wife, a poet, teacher, and writer, tutored young Rudolf for three years. In Gymnasium his favorite subjects seem to have been Latin and mathematics.3 He studied at the universities of Jena and Freiburg from 1910 to 1914.4 He remembered that Bruno Bauch at Jena had taught him Kant's philosophy and Hermann Nohl had discussed Hegel's views, but it was Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) who impresed him most.5 He told Carnap about a new kind of formal logic which "could serve for the construction of the whole of mathematics". 6

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Published in:

Blackmore John, Tanaka Shogo (2001) Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930: or phenomenalism as philosophy of science. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 159-186

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9690-9_8

Full citation:

Itagaki Ryoichi, Blackmore John, Tanaka Shogo (2001) „Carnap's machist "phase"“, In: J. Blackmore & S. Tanaka (eds.), Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930, Dordrecht, Springer, 159–186.