Erkenntnis Orientated: A Centennial Volume for Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-4

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2. Hans Reichenbach Remembered

   • Carl G. Hempel

   Pages 5-10

3. Die Vergessene Rezension Der „Allgemeinen Erkenntnislehre“ Moritz Schlicks Durch Hans Reichenbach — Ein Stück Philosophiegeschichte

   • Klaus Hentschel

   Pages 11-28

4. The Space Problem in the New Quantum Mechanics

   • Hans Reichenbach

   Pages 29-47

5. The Causal Relation as the Most Fundamental Fact of the World. Comments on Hans Reichenbach’s Paper: The Space Problem in the New Quantum Mechanics

   • Andreas Kamlah

   Pages 49-60

6. Reichenbach’s Metaphysical Picture

   • Hilary Putnam

   Pages 61-75

7. Equivalent Descriptions

   • Felix Mühlhölzer

   Pages 77-97

8. Hans Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction

   • Wesley C. Salmon

   Pages 99-122

9. Reichenbach, Induction, and Discovery

   • Kevin T. Kelly

   Pages 123-149

10. Causal Inference

    • C. Glymour, P. Spirtes, R. Scheines

    Pages 151-189

11. Causation and The Direction of Time

    • D. H. Mellor

    Pages 191-203

12. How to Hunt Quantum Causes

    • Nancy Cartwright, Martin Jones

    Pages 205-231

13. Creation as a Pseudo-Explanation in Current Physical Cosmology

    • Adolf Grünbaum

    Pages 233-254

14. After Carnap

    • Richard C. Jeffrey

    Pages 255-262

15. Making Sense of Carnap’s „Aufbau“

    • C. Ulises Moulines

    Pages 263-286

16. Die Konstruktion Der Erfahrungswelt: Carnap und Husserl

    • Verena E. Mayer

    Pages 287-303

17. Carnap und der Physikalismus

    • Franz Von Kutschera

    Pages 305-323

18. Carnap, the Universality of Language and Extremality Axioms

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 325-336

19. A Theory about Logical Theories of “Expressions of the Form ‘The So and So’, Where ‘The’ is in the Singular”

    • Karel Lambert

    Pages 337-346

20. Every Dogma Has Its Day

    • Richard Creath

    Pages 347-389

Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, and Hans Reichenbach on September 26 in the same year. They are two of the greatest philosophers of this century, and they are eminent representatives of what is perhaps the most powerful contemporary philosophical movement. Moreover, they founded the journal Erkenntnis. This is ample reason for presenting, on behalf of Erkenntnis, a collection of essays in honor of them and their philosophical work. I am less sure, however, whether it is a good time for resuming their philosophical impact; their work still is rather part than historical basis of the present philosophical melting-pot. Their basic philosophical theses have currently, it may seem, not so high a standing, but their impact can be seen in numerous detailed issues; they have opened or pushed forward lively fields of research which are still very actively pursued not only within philosophy, but also in many neighboring disciplines. Whatever the present balance of opinions about their philosophical ideas, there is something even more basic in their philosophy than their tenets which is as fresh, as stimulating, as exemplary as ever. I have in mind their way of philosophizing, their conception of how to do philosophy. It is always a good time for reinforcing that conception; and if this volume would manage to do so, it would fully serve its purpose.

• Edmund Husserl
• Hans Reichenbach
• Orient
• Rudolf Carnap
• cosmology
• logic
• quantum mechanics
• singular
• space
• time

• University of Bielefeld, Germany

  Wolfgang Spohn

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