Philosophy of Natural Science is a short introductory textbook by the German-American philosopher Carl G. Hempel, published in 1966 by Prentice-Hall in its Foundations of Philosophy series. It is still under copyright, so the library holds no text; this record describes the book in its own words and quotes only two short sentences.
Carl G. Hempel · AuthorPhilosophy of Natural Science
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Carl G. Hempel
About Carl G. Hempel
Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997) was born at Oranienburg near Berlin and studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin, where he belonged to Hans Reichenbach's Berlin Group, allied with the logical empiricists of the Vienna Circle, and took his doctorate in 1934. He left Germany that year, worked in Brussels, and moved to the United States in 1937 to work with Rudolf Carnap at Chicago. He taught at City College and Queens College in New York, at Yale, at Princeton from 1955 to 1973, and later at the University of Pittsburgh. His papers on confirmation (including the 'raven paradox') and, with Paul Oppenheim, on the logic of explanation (1948) shaped the philosophy of science for a generation.