Two Essays on Entropy

by Rudolf Carnap, Abner Shimony

Real seller with inventory on hand. Hard Cover. Univ of California Pr, 1978. Fine / Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Essays A critical examination of the statistical concept of entropy in classical physics; The abstract concept of entropy and its use in inductive logic. 115 pages with much formulae throughout; charts, tables.

Genres: Philosophy, Science

115 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

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.

Read more : http://www.iep.utm.edu/carnap/