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This book discusses Rudolf Carnap, a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Examines the rich variety of Carnap´s concerns and his place in important intellectual traditions that shape our thinking today.

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This Institute´s Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language.
This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.

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Editorial MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Scientific Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine.- GEORG SCHIEMER, Carnap´s Untersuchungen: Logicism, Formal Semantics,and Metatheory.- MATTHIAS NEUBER, Realism as a Problem of Language - From Carnap to Reichenbach and Kaila.- RICHARD CREATH, Analyticity in the Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Really Necessary?.- CHRISTIAN DAMBÖCK, Rudolf Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: "German" Empiricism in the Aufbau.- CHRISTOPH LIMBECK-LILIENAU, Carnap´s Encounter with Pragmatism.- THOMAS MORMANN, Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori:From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond.- THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap, Philosophy, and "Politics in its Broadest Sense".- GENERAL PART.- REVIEW ESSAYS.- THOMAS MORMANN, A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and the Vienna Circle after 1933.- JOHN MICHAEL, Emergence - still trendy after all these years.- REVIEWS.- Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien-New York: Springer, 2010 (Massimo Ferrari).- Matthew Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobiography. London: Hyphen Press 2011. (Günther Sandner).- Giovanni Vailati. Logic and Pragmatism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Edited by Claudia Arrighi, Paola Cantù, Mauro de Zan, and Patrick Suppes. Stanford: CSLI, 2010. (Paolo Palmieri) The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. (Miles MacLeod) Karl von Meyenn (ed.), Eine Entdeckung von ganz außerordentlicher Tragweite. Schrödingers Briefwechsel zur Wellenmechanik und zum Katzenparadox. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg 2011. (Wolfgang Reiter) Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Index of Names. _

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