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Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) was a German logician and philosopher, an eminent member of the Vienna Circle and one of the main proponents of logical empiricism. The correspondence reproduced here covers the time from 1942 to 1947, when Carnap worked at the University of Chicago and Popper at Canterbury University College in Christchurch. During that time, Carnap published his books Introduction to Semantics (Carnap, 1942) and Formalization of Logic (Carnap, 1943) and sent copies to Popper in New Zealand. Popper’s reading of these books is the starting point for their discussion on logic in this correspondence; Popper sends his detailed notes, remarks and questions to Carnap. Popper later frequently refers to Carnap’s work on logic in both his published and unpublished articles. One of his criticisms of one of Carnap’s systems, in a footnote of Popper (1947c), ultimately unjustified, is discussed in the last two letters reproduced here.
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Binder, D., Piecha, T., Schroeder-Heister, P. (2022). Popper’s Correspondence with Rudolf Carnap. In: Binder, D., Piecha, T., Schroeder-Heister, P. (eds) The Logical Writings of Karl Popper. Trends in Logic, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94926-6_23
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