The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

by Rudolf Carnap, Rolf George (translator)

Available for the first time in 20 years, here are two important works from the 1920s by the best-known representative of the Vienna Circle. In The Logical Structure of the World, Carnap adopts the position of methodological solipsism” and shows that it is possible to describe the world from the immediate data of experience. In his Pseudo problems in Philosophy, he asserts that many philosophical problems are meaningless.

366 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2024

About the author

Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized U.S. citizen, was a leading exponent of logical positivism and was one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of science, philosophy of language, the theory of probability, inductive logic and modal logic. He rejected metaphysics as meaningless because metaphysical statements cannot be proved or disproved by experience. He asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed pseudo-problems, the outcome of a misuse of language.

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