Carnap and the Psychological Subject

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)

The next session of the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series will take place on February 19, 2025.

Speaker: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)
Title: Carnap and the Psychological Subject

Time: February 19, 2025 — from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM CET (from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST)

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Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series

Carnap and the Psychological Subject

By Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech)

Over the 19th century, researchers including Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Mach, and William James examined the physiological basis for epistemic capacities that had been given an idealist explanation in earlier theories. The early work of Rudolf Carnap, especially Der logische Aufbau der Welt, is sometimes faulted for lacking a substantive theory of the subject. But Carnap’s approach acquires more substantial backing when viewed as continuous with the project of these 19th century theories of perception and objective knowledge.