MAX BLACK'S COPY

CARNAP, RUDOLF.

Einführung in die symbolische Logik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendungen. Zweite neubearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Mit 5 Textabbildungen.

Wien, Springer=Verlag, 1954. 8vo. Orig. grey cloth w. blue lettering, capitals a bit bumped; orig. white and black dust-jacket w. some soiling, and a bit of loss to upper capital. X, 209, (1), (2, -advertisements) pp.

Second issue of Carnap's important Introduction to Symbolic Logic with Applications, which constitutes a highly important introduction to this foundational science of the 20th century, Max Black's copy with his signature to front free end-paper.

"Die symbolische Logik ist eine Grundlagenswissenschaft ersten Ranges geworden, deren Bedeutung heute vor allem in angelsächsischen Ländern eingeschätzt wird. Nach den Worten des Verfassers, der, aus dem "Wiener Kreis" kommend, selbst massgeblich an der Gestaltung dieser Wissenschaft mitgewirkt hat, ist die Symbolik eine unter genauen Regeln stehende Sprach, durch deren Verwendung die Formen des eigenen Denkens verschärft werden können..." (Front flap).

The British-American Max Black (1909-1988) was one of the leading analytic philosophers of the first half of the 20th century. He has contributed with important works within the fields of philosophy of language, mathematics and science as well as studies on and translations of Frege. He studied mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he met Russell, Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, and Ramsey and developed a profound interest in the philosophy of mathematics.

Rudolf Carnap (born 1891 in Ronsdorf, Germany, died 1970 in Santa Monica, California) was an immensely influential analytic philosopher, who has contributed decisively to the fields of logic, epistemology, semantics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle, and a prominent logical positivist. He studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg, and worked at the universities of Jena, Vienna and Prague until 1935, when he, due to the war, emigrated to the U.S., where he became an American citizen in 1941. In America he became professor of the University of Chicago.
In Jena he was appointed Professor of Mathematics, though his main interest at that time was in physics.

After the publication of his first work, Carnap's involvement with the Vienna Circle began to develop. He met Reichenbach in 1923 and was introduced to Moritz Schlick in Vienna, where he then moved to become assistant professor at the university. He soon became one of the leading members of the Vienna Circle, and in 1929 he, Neurath, and Hahn wrote the manifest of the Circle.

This copy of Carnap's important introduction to this field so important for the analytic philosophers, unites two of the giants of the period. In his autobiography, Carnap writes "I also had interesting discussions with some of the younger philosophers, among them Alfred Ayer, who had been in Vienna for some time when I was already in Prague, R.B. Braithwaite, and Max Black; they were interested in recent ideas of the Vienna Circle, such as physicalism and logical syntax." (In Schilpp, "The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap", 1963, p.34).

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