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Jan 8, 1905

Born
Period: Jan 8, 1905 to Nov 9, 1997

Carl Gustav Hempel
1929

First Congress on scientific philosophy

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1929

Moved to Vienna

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1934

Obtained PhD. in Philosophy from University of Berlin
1934

Immigrated to Belgium

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1936

Published Der Typusbegriff im Lichte der neuen Logik on the logical theory of classifier, comparative and metric scientific concepts with Paul Oppenheim.

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1937

Emigrated to the United States

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1937

Invited to be Research Associate at University of Chicago

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1939

Professor at City College in NYC 1939-1940
1940

Professor at Queens College in NY 1940-1948
1943

Published "A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation," in The Journal of Symbolic Logic

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1945

Published "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" in Mind, and "A Definition of Degree of Confirmation" (with P. Oppenheim) in Philosophy of Science
1945

The raven paradox is published in "Studies in the logic of confirmation."

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1946

Published "A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation" in Mind.
1948

Published "Studies in the Logic of Explanation" (with P. Oppenheim) in Philosophy of Science

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Period: 1948 to 1955

Professor, Yale University.

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1952

Published Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science.

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Period: 1955 to 1966

Professor, Princeton University

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1965

Published "Aspects of Scientific Explanation."

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1973

Published "The Meaning of Theoretical Terms: A Critique of the Standard Empiricist Construal" in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IV (ed. by Patrick Suppes)

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1975

Became coeditor of the journal Erkenntnis.

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Period: 1976 to 1985

Professor at Berkely, Irvine, Jeruselem, and Pittsburgh

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1983

Published "Valuation and Objectivity in Science" in Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (ed. by R. S. Cohen and L. Laudan)
1988

Published "Provisoes: A Problem Concerning the Inferential Function of Scientific Theories" in Erkenntnis

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Nov 9, 1997

Died