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Rudolf Carnap
German-born American philosopher Rudolf Carnap, 1960.
Rudolf Carnap helped found the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science in collaboration with two other scholars:
- Otto Neurath: A sociologist and former fellow member of the Vienna Circle.1
- Charles W. Morris: A pragmatist philosopher and academic colleague of Carnap.1
The project, which began publication in 1938, was designed as a series of monographs addressing general problems in the philosophy of science as well as philosophical issues related to mathematics and empirical sciences.1