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IVC Yearbook 6/1998

Alfred Tarski and the Vienna Circle: Austro-Polish Connections in Logical Empiricism

Editors: Jan Wolenski et al.

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Contributors
Burdman-Feferman,  Creath,   Dalla Chiara / Giuntini,  Essler,   Feferman,   Grzegorczyk,   Gottlob,   Hintikka / Sandu,   Kvasz,  Mormann,   Murawski,   Niiniluoto,   Rojszczak,  Schurz,   Sluga,   Sundholm,   Tarski,   Weingartner,   Wolenski ,   Wójcicki,  


Table of Contents

Editorial

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Articles

 



I. The Development of Tarski's Concept of Truth

 

Jan Wolenski ,  Semantic Revolution -- Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Alfred Tarski 1
Ilkka Niiniluoto ,  Theories of Truth: Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw 17
Hans Sluga ,  Truth Before Tarski 27


II. The Interaction Between Tarski and the Vienna Circle


Anita Burdman Feferman ,  How the Unity of Science Saved Alfred Tarski 43
Solomon Feferman ,  Tarski and Gödel: Between the Lines   53
Richard Creath,  Carnap's Move to Semantics: Gains and Losses 65
Gerhard Schurz,  Tarski and Carnap on Logical Truth -- or:  What Is Genuine Logic?   77


III. Philosophical Aspects of Tarski's Concept of Truth and its Application in the Methodology of Science


Jan Tarski,  Interplay of Philosophy and Mathematics in the Classical Theory of Truth 95
Andrzej Grzegorczyk,  Is Antipsychologism Still Tenable?   109
Artur Rojszczak,  Why Should a Physical Object Take on the Role of Truth-Bearer? 115
Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara / Roberto Giuntini ,  ukasiewicz' Theory of Truth, from the
  Quantum Logical Point of View
 
127
Göran Sundholm,  Intuitionism and Logical Tolerance 135
Wilhelm K. Essler,  Tarski on Language and Truth   149
Thomas Mormann,  Neurath's Opposition to Tarskian Semantics 165
Ladislav Kvasz,  Tarski and Wittgenstein on Semantics of Geometrical Figures  179


IV. Technical Aspects of Tarski's Definition of Truth and Model Theory


Paul Weingartner,  Tarski's Truth Condition Revisited 193
Roman Murawski,  Undefinability vs. Definability of Satisfaction and Truth  203
Jaakko Hintikka / Gabriel Sandu,  Tarski's Guilty Secret: Compositionality   217
Ryszard Wójcicki,  Should Tarski's Idea of Consequence Operation be Revised?  231
Georg Gottlob,  Remarks on a Carnapian Extension of S5  243


Report - Documentation


Alfred Tarski, Letters to Kurt Gödel,  1942--1947 (Translated and edited by Jan Tarski) 261
Paolo Parrini,  "Neo-Positivism and Italian Philosophy (1924--1973)   275


Review Essay


Thomas Mormann, Critical Idealism Revisited -- Recent Work on Cassirer's Philosophy
  of Science  
275


Reviews


Ronald N. Giere/Alan W. Richardson (eds.), Origins of Logical Empiricism,
  1996 (Michael Heidelberger)
307
Hao Wang, A Logical Journey. From Gödel to Philosophy, 1996 (Eckehart Köhler) 312
Werner DePauli-Schimanovich/ Peter Weibel, Kurt Gödel. Ein mathematischer Mythos,
  1997 (Wolfgang Ullrich)
318
John Earman, Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks. Singularities and
  Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes
, 1995 (Michael Stöltzner
320
Anne Harrington, Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II
  to Hitler
, 1996 (Veronika Hofer)
325
Martin Kusch, Psychologism. A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
  (Nicole D. Schmidt)
329
Mauthner, Fritz, Das Philosophische Werk in 10 Bänden (ed. Ludger Lütkehaus) and
  Wörterbuch der Philosophie. Neue Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache,
  1997 (Camilla R. Nielsen)
333

Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle
Survey 1998 337
Preview 1999 339
Index of Names 341