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SUMMARY:Carnapian Explication: Probing its Criteria of Adequacy
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The next session of the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series (see the attached flyer) will take place on <strong>March 5\, 2025</strong>.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:</strong> Erich Reck (University of California\, Riverside)<br> <strong>Title: </strong><em>Carnapian Explication: Probing its Criteria of Adequacy</em></p>\n<p><strong>Time:</strong> March 5\, 2025 &mdash\;4:30 PM to 6:30 PM CET (10:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST)<br> <strong>Link:</strong> <a target="_new">meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr</a></p>\n\n<p>The abstract is provided below. For further information about the event\, please consult the following website\, or send a message to <a href="mailto:caterina.delsordo@ehu.eus">caterina.delsordo@ehu.eus</a>:<br> <a href="https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/einzelansicht/news/reconstructing-carnap-webinar-series/">Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Carnapian Explication: Probing its Criteria of Adequacy</strong></p>\n<p>By Erich Reck\, UC Riverside</p>\n\n<p>With his discussion of the notion of explication\, Rudolf Carnap made explicit a distinctive philosophical methodology\, one that has shaped important currents in philosophy since then\, e.g.\, large parts of formal and naturalistic philosophy.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Employing this methodology contrasts with using a stronger\, metaphysically loaded notion of analysis\, including in other parts of analytic philosophy.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Beyond its anti-metaphysical thrust\, Carnap promoted his methodology to effect an assimilation of philosophy to the sciences.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Crucial in this connection are his criteria of adequacy for explication\, especially his deflationary similarity criterion\, together with the science- and logic-inspired criteria of exactness\, simplicity\, and fruitfulness.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;In this talk I will probe these desiderata for explication critically\, especially similarity as described by Carnap.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Doing so will involve comparing his remarks about it with related discussions and alternative suggestions in works by Alfred Tarski\, Nelson Goodman\, and Peter Strawson.</p>
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