Peter Hylton: Carnap and Quine and the Nature of Evidence (and the Nature of Philosophy)

Lecture by Peter Hylton (University of Illinois, Chicago) organized by the Department of Theoretical Philosophy

In this talk I discuss the differing views of Carnap and Quine about evidence, as a way of gaining insight into their differing conceptions of philosophy and philosophical method. I begin by discussing Carnap’s Logische Aufbau der Welt and the tension in Carnap’s early thought which it displays. He resolves the tension in 1932 by....(continue reading...)