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    Carl Hempel

    Carl Hempel

    contemporaryLogical Empiricism

    1905 – 1997

    Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997) was a German-American philosopher of science and leading figure of logical empiricism. He is best known for developing the covering-law model of scientific explanation and for rigorous analyses of confirmation, cognitive significance, and the structure of empirical inquiry.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the deductive-nomological (covering-law) model of scientific explanation

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    Formulated the raven paradox, a foundational problem in confirmation theory

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    Critiqued the verifiability criterion of meaning, refining the empiricist account of cognitive significance

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    Authored Aspects of Scientific Explanation (1965), a landmark text in philosophy of science

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    Bridged the Vienna Circle tradition with Anglophone analytic philosophy of science

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    Philosophy of Language

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

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    Aristotle's paradeigma foreshadows deductive analyses of analogical reasoning

    Truth & Knowledge

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

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    Aristotle's paradeigma foreshadows deductive analyses of analogical reasoning

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