Carl G. Hempel

Carl Gustav Hempel was born in 1905 in Oranienburg, near Berlin. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin, and was associated with the Berlin Circle, a group close to the logical empiricists of the Vienna Circle. He completed his doctorate in Berlin in 1934 and soon left Nazi Germany, first for Belgium and then in 1937 for the United States. He taught at the City College of New York, Queens College, Yale and, from 1955, Princeton University, and after retiring he taught at the University of Pittsburgh. Hempel is best known for the 'covering law' model of scientific explanation, developed with Paul Oppenheim, which describes explaining an event as showing that it follows from general laws and particular conditions. He also posed the 'raven paradox' about how evidence confirms a general statement. His short textbook Philosophy of Natural Science (1966) became a standard introduction. He died in Princeton in 1997.

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