Carnap's Construction of the World: The Aufbau and the Emergence of Logical Empiricism Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Reconstructing the Aufbau	5
	Fundamentals of the epistemology of the Aufbau	6
	The received view of the Aufbau	10
	Russell's external world program	13
	Carnap's Aufbau and Russell's external world program	22
	The Aufbau in context	28
2	The problem of objectivity: An overview of Carnap's constitutional project	31
	Knowledge versus experience: The problem of subjective origins	32
	Structure and objectivity	35
	Purely structural definite description	47
	Quasi analysis	51
	Goodman's objections to quasi analysis	59
3	An outline of the constitutional projects of objectivity	65
	The lowest levels of the constitutional system	65
	The constitution of the world of physics	70
	The constitution of the intersubjective world	76
	The elimination of Rs	87
	The problem of objectivity	89
4	The background to early Carnap: Themes from Kant	92
	The Kantian problematic	92
	The various notions of the synthetic a priori	101
5	The fundamentals of neo-Kantian epistemology	116
	Transcendental and formal logic	117
	Conventionalism and the logic of objective knowledge	124
	Problems for the neo-Kantians	134
	The transition to Carnap	138
6	Carnap's neo-Kantian origins: Der Raum	139
	Logic and convention: Mathematical and physical space	140
	Intuition and spatial knowledge	153
7	Critical conventionalism	159
	On the task of physics	159
	The three-dimensionality of space and causality	167
	The temporal determination of space	172
	The general conventionalism of Physikalische Begriffsbildung	175
	Critical conventionalism and the Aufbau	180
8	Epistemology between logic and science: The essential tension	183
	The unity of science and logical convention	184
	Epistemology as empirical science	187
	Epistemology as formal science	191
	Logical empiricism	197
	The Aufbau in the formal mode of speech	198
9	After objectivity: Logical empiricism as philosophy of science	207
	From epistemology to the logic of science	207
	Toward a logical point of view	213
	One dogma of the logic of science	217
	The point of the logic of science	225
	Bibliography	230
	Index	239