Timeline: Carl Hempel

Jan 8, 1905

Born

1929

Carl Joins the Vienna Circle

Carl met Rudolf Carnap, who was involved with the circle of Berlin Philosophers associated with the Vienna circle. A influential group of philosophers and scientist that help create the logical Empiricism movement.

1934

Graudation

Carl Graduates the University of Berlin with a doctoral degree for a dissertation on probability theory.

1935

Carl Emigrates to Brussels

Carl with his Jewish wife emigrate to brussels with the rise of the Nazi moment.

1937

Carl Comes to America

Carl emigrated to America where he is accepted as Rudluf Carnaps Assistant, at the university of Chicago.

1948

Carls Deductive-nomological model

Frist in 1942 than in 1948 Carl creates the Deductive-nomological model. The Model is a scientific explanation as a deductive structure: that the truth of the premises equals the truth of the conclusion, hinged on accurate prediction. The model is largely influenced by the Human Empiricist View. That which humans observe a series of observable events not immediately see cause and effect.

1955

Taught along side Thomas Kuhn

Professor at Yale and Princeton

1965

Carl's Raven Paradox

Best know for the Ravens Paradox, in his 1965 "studies in logic confirmation" Carl explains a logical problem in inductive reasoning within the scientific method. The Paradox highlights the laws of logic in the inductive state have a flaw when applied to the scientific method. The idea being if one accepts inductive Hypotheses and confirms with observation, then every observation that does refute it confirms it even if its irrelevant.

1965