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Carl Gustav Hempel (* January 8 1905 in Oranienburg, Germany † November 9 1997 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a student of logical positivism. He is primarily associated by having a construct of deductive-nomological explanation and with a Raven paradox.
Biography Hempel exposed mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the Universitiy of Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin. Within Göttingen he found David Hilbert and was impressed by his attempt to base all of math in firm logical foundations from either the limited total of axioms (Hilbert's Program). With moved to Berlwithinside he participated in the congress in scientific philosophy in 1929, in which he met Rudolf Carnap. Enthusiastic astir Carnap's operate, Hempel moved to Vienna and became part of the Vienna Circle. Within 1934 he received his doctorial degree from either the University of Berlin by having a thesis in probability theory. A equivalent month he fled a progressively inhibitory Germany & emigrated to Belgium with the assist of Paul Oppenheim, with whom he co-authored a book "Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik" inside typology & logics in 1936. Inside 1937 Hempel emigrated to the Usthe in which he accepted a position when Carnap's adjunct at a University of Chicago. Later on he held positions at New York City College (1939-1948), Yale University (1948-1955), and Princeton University where he stayed until he was given retired status around 1964. As an retired he spend a years from either 1964-1966 at a Hebrew University in Jerusalem and taught at Pittsburgh until 1985.
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This article is inside heavy sectiin a translation from either the Article on Carl Gustav Hempel on the German wikipedia places.
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Carl Gustav Hempel Essay with bibliography on this 20th-century thinker's life and ideas, by Mauro Murzi. From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. On the Nature of Mathematical Truth Text of Hempel's 1945 paper from the American Mathematical Monthly. Notes, table of contents, and text in separate frames. Geometry and Empirical Science Text of a 1945 paper by Hempel from the American Mathematical Monthly. Frameset with table of contents and text in separate frames. Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning Text, with original pagination, of a 1950 paper by Hempel from the Revue Internationale de Philosophie. FOLDOC: Hempel Carl Gustav Entry on this logician and philosopher, with links to related topics. Biography.com: Hempel, Carl Gustav Brief outline of the life of this German-born thinker. The Doomsday Argument and Hempel's Problem Paper by Paul Franceschi, discussing Hempel's paradox of confirmation in detail, and a commonly-proposed solution to it. |
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