Carl Gustav Hempel

Early life

1905

He was born in Oranenburg, near Berlin in 1905. Jeffrey, Richard. "In Memoriam: Carl Gustav Hempel." Erkenntnis, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 281-283. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/memoriam-carl-gustav-hempel/docview/195460954/se-2?accountid=8289, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005339312532.

University Studies

1923

In 1923 after he finished in Realgymnasium school he went to the University of Göttingen. He took some courses on mathematics, symbol logic and phylosophy after that he went to focus on the phisolsophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science.
Science, Explanation, and Rationality : Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=439067.

Doctorate

1934

Hempel finally finished his doctorate degree in 1934. Science, Explanation, and Rationality : Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=439067.

Chicago USA

1937

In 1937, Hempel was invited to the University of Chicago as a Research Associate in Philosophy.
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Teaching in New York

1940

"Hempel in the 1940s taught in New York in two different colleges. At the City College between 1939-1940 and at Queens College between 1940 to 1948."
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First wife died

1944

Hempel first wife Eva Ahrends Hempel died in 1944, shortly after giving birth to their only son Peter Andrew Hempel.
https://pr.princeton.edu/news/97/q4/1112-hempel.html
Jeffrey, Richard. "In Memoriam: Carl Gustav Hempel." Erkenntnis, vol. 47, no. 3, 1997, pp. 281-283. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/memoriam-carl-gustav-hempel/docview/195460954/se-2?accountid=8289, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005339312532.

Raven Paradox

1945

Hempel first introduced it in 1937 in a journal with the name of "Le Probleme de la verite". In 1945 was published in greater detail in an article called "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCawgxp1uFU
Science, Explanation, and Rationality : Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=439067.

Published article

1945

Hempel publish the paper called "A Definition of Degree of Confirmation (with Oppenheim) in Phylosophy of Science.
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Published article

1946

Hempel published the article called "A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation" in Mind.
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Published article

1948

Hempel published the article "Studies in the Logic of Explanation" (with P. Oppenheim) in Phylosophy of Science.
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Second marriage and daugther born

1949

Hemple married Diane Perlow in 1948 and had a daugther named Miranda Toby Ann in 1949. Science, Explanation, and Rationality : Aspects of the Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel, edited by James H. Fetzer, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=439067.

Teaching

1955

Between 1948 and 1955 Hempel taught at Yale University. In 1955 he began teaching in the University of Princeton. https://iep.utm.edu/hempel/

Two more published papers

1966

He published the "Aspects of Scientific Explanation" and "Phylosophy of Science" in 1965 and 1966 respectively.
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"The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empirisist Construal"

1973

"Published in 1973 in the journal Logic, Methodology and Phylosophy of Science IV (ed.by Patrick Suppes). He criticizes an aspect of logical positivism's theory of science: the distinction between observational and theoretical terms and the related problem about the meaning of theoretical terms."
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Teaching some more

1985

Hempel between 1976 and 1985 continued teaching in Berkeley, Irvine, Jerusalem in Pittsburg.
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"Provisoes: A Problem concerning the Inferential Function of Scientific Theories"

1988

This article was published in the journal Erkenntnis in 1988. He criticizes another aspect of logical positivism's theory of science: the deductive nature of scientific theories.
https://iep.utm.edu/hempel/

At the end

Nov 9, 1997

Hempel died November 9, 1997 in Princeton Township, New Jersey. https://iep.utm.edu/hempel/
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