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(2014) European philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Carnap's Aufbau and physicalism
what does the "mutual reducibility" of psychological and physical objects amount to?
Thomas Uebel
pp. 45-56
The present paper is part of a larger project of investigating how far puzzling questions about Carnap's philosophical deflationism – as expressed most prominently in "Empricism, Semantics and Ontology"1 – can be answered by reference to his own preferred position in areas upon which this meta-philosophical position can be expected to have a bearing. For that project the explorations below provide a starting point; on the present occasion they will, I hope, be found to be of independent interest. At issue is the question of what makes Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (the Aufbau) a pre-physicalist work.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01899-7_3
Full citation:
Uebel, T. (2014)., Carnap's Aufbau and physicalism: what does the "mutual reducibility" of psychological and physical objects amount to?, in M. C. Galavotti, E. Nemeth & F. Stadler (eds.), European philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 45-56.
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