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German-Born American Philosopher
Carl Gustav Hempel was born on January 8, 1905 in Oranienburg, Germany. It is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, whose original name was Bötzow. Hempel attended multiple universities throughout Germany. The University of Göttingen, the Universitz of Berlin and the Heidelberg University. He yearned his PH.D in 1934 from the University of Berlin with a dissertation on probability theory. www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Gustav-Hempel
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Immigration to the United States Universities
With the growing Nazi regime in Germany, and due to his wife being of Jewish descent, Hempel immigrated to the United States in 1937. He held positions as an assistant to Rudolf Carnap at the University of Chicago. Later at City College of New York (1939-1948), Yale University, Princeton University, and the University of Pittsburgh. www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Gustav-Hempel
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Raven Paradox
Hempel is know for his many literature works on logic and philosophy of science. One such work is the Raven Paradox or Hempel's Paradox. In the 1940s, Hempel proposed that a problem arose from the question of what constitutes as evidence for a statement. This was done to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic, a probable truth based on evidence, and intuition, a truth that has no proof.
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Studies in the Logic of Explanation
Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim wrote an essay titled "Studies in the Logic of Explanation". It was written to shed light on "the function and the essential characteristics of scientific explanation".(Philosophy of Science, Vol. 15, No. 2. (Apr., 1948), pp. 135). http://www.sfu.ca/~jillmc/Hempel%20and%20Oppenheim.pdf
