Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism
Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism Carnap's ideal of explication has become a key concept in analytic philosophy and the basis of a method of analysis which may be considered as an…
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Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism
Carnap's ideal of explication has become a key concept in analytic philosophy and the basis of a method of analysis which may be considered as an alternative to various forms of naturalism, including Quine's conception of a naturalized epistemology. Whereas Michael Friedman articulated a notion of relativized a priori which owes much to Carnap's internal/external distinction, Andre Carus attempted to restate Carnap's ideal of explication in a way that bridges the gap between conceptual engineering and naturalism. More recently, new light has been shed on this aspect of the classical Carnap-Quine debate by contemporary philosophers.
This book consists of a series of defences as well as critiques of Carnap's programme, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, Mark Wilson argued that concepts develop in unpredictable ways and cannot be planned in the way classical analytic philosophy has assumed from Frege and Russell onwards.
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