Background
Carl Gustav Hempel was born on January 8, 1905, in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.
Gottingen, Germany
University of Gottingen
Berlin, Germany
University of Berlin
Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg University
Guggenheim fellowship
Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Chicago
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City College
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Queens College
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
University of Pittsburgh
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
University of Princeton
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The essays in this collection come from the early and late periods of Hempel's career. Most of these essays are hard to track down and four of them are appearing in English for the first time. Cumulatively they offer a fresh perspective on Hempel's intellectual development and on the rise and demise of logical empiricism. Richard Jeffrey has prepared the collection for publication, and has supplied introductory surveys to the essays as well as a brief biographical sketch of Hempel.
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Carl Gustav Hempel was born on January 8, 1905, in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.
Hempel studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He was educated at the University of Berlin, earning his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1934. He also attended the Heidelberg University.
Hempel took part in the first congress on scientific philosophy organized by logical positivists in 1929. After that he moved to Vienna. During the same years, he qualified as a teacher. In 1934, he immigrated to Belgium, publishing there a book titled Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik - about the logical theory - two years later.
In 1937, Hempel was appointed as a Research Associate in Philosophy to the University of Chicago. Two more years later, Hempel immigrated to the United States. He served as a teacher at the City College of New York from 1939 to 1940, and then at the Queens College, from 1940 till 1948. There he published several articles - such as A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation, Studies in the Logic of Confirmation, A Definition of Degree of Confirmation, A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation and Studies in the Logic of Explanation.
Hempel developed the deductive-nomological theory in 1948, which said that scientific reasoning is best performed using larger laws and logic. With Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, he was instrumental in the transformation of the dominant philosophical movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which was known as “logical positivism”, into the more nuanced position known as “logical empiricism”. Hempel built mathematical models for explaining probabilistic answers and the way in which scientists develop a hypothesis.
Hempel proposed the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox") in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition.
For seven years from 1948, Hempel taught at the Yale University. The next educational institution where he worked was the University of Princeton, where he taught from 1955. Hempel continued his teaching at Berkley, Irvine, Jerusalem, and, from 1976 to 1985, at the University of Pittsburgh. That time, his philosophical views changed and he detached from logical positivism, publishing his articles titled The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empiricist Construal, Valuation and Objectivity in Science and Provisoes: A Problem Concerning the Inferential Function of Scientific Theories. Nevertheless, Hempel joined to logical positivism again. In 1974 Hempel became co-editor of the journal Erkenntnis. He also lectured at the University of London, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Adelaide in Australia.
His another writing included Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science (1952), Philosophy of Natural Science (1966), Aspects of Scientific Explanation (1970), and Methodology, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (1983). He taught at Princeton from 1955 to 1973, then he joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1977.
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Hempel's paradox of the ravens has been a constant challenge for theories of confirmation. His deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation placed explanations on the same logical footing as predictions; they are both deductive arguments. Hempel also introduced a quantitative measure of the power of a theory to systematize its data. Later Hempel abandoned the project of an inductive logic. He also emphasized the problems with logical positivism (logical empiricism). Finally, Hempel detached from the logical positivists’ analysis of science to a more empirical analysis in terms of the sociology of science.
Quotations: "The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results."
Hempel was a senior Fulbright fellow at Oxford University.