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Born
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Started his education in Germany
"..in 1923, he was admitted at the University of Gottingen where he studied mathematics with David Hilbert and Edmund Landau and symbolic logic with Heinrich Behmann. Hempel was very impressed with Hilbert’s program of proving the consistency of mathematics by means of elementary methods; he also studied philosophy, but he found mathematical logic more interesting than traditional logic." Murzi, Mauro. “Carl Hempel.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy , www.iep.utm.edu/hempel/. -
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Emigrated to the United States to begin teaching
Moved to New York City and became an instructor at City College (1939-1940) then at Queens College (1940-1948). During this time he published several papers on the theory of confirmation and expination. Murzi, Mauro. “Carl Hempel.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy , www.iep.utm.edu/hempel/. -
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Raven Paradox
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Published works
Hempel published: " "A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation," in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 8, 1943; "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" in Mind, 54, 1945; "A Definition of Degree of Confirmation" (with P. Oppenheim) in Philosophy of Science, 12, 1945; "A Note on the Paradoxes of Confirmation" in Mind, 55, 1946; "Studies in the Logic of Explanation" (with P. Oppenheim) in Philosophy of Science, 15, 1948." (Cannot fit citation in this format) -
Critical of the logical positivism movement
"...in Fundamentals of Concept Formation in Empirical Science (1952), Hempel had endorsed explication as a method of definition analogous to theory construction by taking words and phrases that are somewhat vague and ambiguous and subjecting them to a process of clarification and disambiguation." Fetzer, James. “Carl Hempel.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 6 Sept. 2017, plato.stanford.edu/entries/hempel/. -
Death
Passed in Princeton, New Jersey
