Carl Gustav Hempel

Born

Jan 8, 1905

Carl Gustav Hempel

Period: Jan 8, 1905 to Nov 9, 1997

First Congress on scientific philosophy

1929

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Moved to Vienna

1929

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Obtained PhD. in Philosophy from University of Berlin

1934

Immigrated to Belgium

1934

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

1936

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Emigrated to the United States

1937

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Invited to be Research Associate at University of Chicago

1937

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Professor at City College in NYC 1939-1940

1939

Professor at Queens College in NY 1940-1948

1940

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

1943

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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."

1945

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

1946

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

1948

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Professor, Yale University.

Period: 1948 to 1955

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

1952

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Professor, Princeton University

Period: 1955 to 1966

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Published "Aspects of Scientific Explanation."

1965

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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)

1973

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Became coeditor of the journal Erkenntnis.

1975

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Professor at Berkely, Irvine, Jeruselem, and Pittsburgh

Period: 1976 to 1985

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

1983

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

1988

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Died

Nov 9, 1997