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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is generally acknowledged to have been
one of the central figures of twentieth-century philosophy. He was
the leading philosopher of the Vienna Circle, a group that was
central to the international movement known as logical empiricism,
which pursued the goal of making philosophy scientific and
eliminating metaphysics that went beyond the limits of what humans
can coherently comprehend. Carnap was not only well-versed in this
area of thought but also contrary ideas; he interacted
philosophically with Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, and in his
formative years he was influenced by the positivists Mach and
Ostwald, neo-Kantians such as Cassirer and Natorp, and Husserl's
phenomenology. Interest in logical empiricism waned in the decades
following Carnap's death but was revived towards the end of the
twentieth century; the wave of new scholarship that resulted
identified Carnap as far more subtle and interesting than was
previously understood. The complete fourteen-volume edition of
Carnap's published writings builds upon these more recent
interpretations of his philosophy. This first book contains
Carnap's early publications up until 1928, none of which have
previously been translated from their original German. The
introduction and notes place the text in the relevant scientific
and historical contexts, in addition to explaining obscure
references or outdated notation and terminology. Carnap's
neo-Kantian origins are more obvious in these works than in his
later writings, and the overall figure which emerges from this
volume is a very different Carnap to the caricature that many
philosophers will know.
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