TY - BOOK ID - 33202842 TI - The semantic tradition from Kant to Carnap : to the Vienna station AU - Coffa, Alberto AU - Wessels, Linda PY - 1991 SN - 0521374294 0521447070 1139172247 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Semantics KW - Vienna circle KW - Viennese circle KW - Wiener Kreis KW - Philosophers KW - Logical positivism KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - History KW - Bolzano, Bernard, KW - Frege, Gottlob, KW - Kant, Immanuel KW - Frege, G. KW - Fu-lei-ko, KW - Frege, Friedrich Gottlob, KW - פרגה, גוטלוב, KW - Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob, KW - Kant, Emmanuel KW - Kant, Emanuel KW - Kant, Emanuele KW - Vienna circle. KW - History. KW - Kant, Immanuel, KW - Sémantique KW - Cercle de Vienne KW - Histoire KW - Contributions in semantics KW - Et la sémantique KW - Bolzano, Bernard KW - Frege, Gottlob KW - Semantics - History. KW - Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 - Contributions in semantics. KW - Bolzano, Bernard, 1781-1848 Contributions in semantics. KW - Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925 - Contributions in semantics. KW - Contributions in semantics. KW - Kant, I. KW - Kānt, ʻAmmānūʼīl, KW - Kant, Immanouel, KW - Kant, Immanuil, KW - Kʻantʻŭ, KW - Kant, KW - Kant, Emmanuel, KW - Ḳanṭ, ʻImanuʼel, KW - Kant, E., KW - Kant, Emanuel, KW - Cantơ, I., KW - Kant, Emanuele, KW - Kant, Im. KW - קאנט KW - קאנט, א. KW - קאנט, עמנואל KW - קאנט, עמנואל, KW - קאנט, ע. KW - קנט KW - קנט, עמנואל KW - קנט, עמנואל, KW - كانت ، ايمانوئل KW - كنت، إمانويل، KW - カントイマニユエル, KW - Kangde, KW - 康德, KW - Kanṭ, Īmānwīl, KW - كانط، إيمانويل KW - Kant, Manuel, KW - Bolzano, Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33202842 AB - This major publication is a history of the semantic tradition in philosophy from the early nineteenth century through its incarnation in the work of the Vienna Circle, the group of logical positivists that emerged in the years 1925-1935 in Vienna who were characterised by a strong commitment to empiricism, a high regard for science, and a conviction that modern logic is the primary tool of analytic philosophy. In the first part of the book, Alberto Coffa traces the roots of logical positivism in a semantic tradition that arose in opposition to Kant's theory that a priori knowledge is based on pure intuition and the constitutive powers of the mind. In Part II, Coffa chronicles the development of this tradition by members and associates of the Vienna Circle. Much of Coffa's analysis draws on the unpublished notes and correspondence of many philosophers. The book, however, is not merely a history of the semantic tradition from Kant 'to the Vienna Station'. Coffa also critically reassesses the role of semantic notions in understanding the ground of a priori knowledge and its relation to empirical knowledge and questions the turn the tradition has taken since Vienna. ER -