Lutz, Sebastian (2024) The Received View and Its Images. [Preprint]

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The Received View on scientific theories is a framework for formalizing and analyzing theories mainly developed by Rudolf Carnap and Carl Gustav Hempel within logical empiricism. Its central assumptions are that theories and observations can be formalized in predicate logic, that the language of formalization has a context-dependent observational sub-language or separate observation language, and that the interpretation of the language is restricted only by theories and the interpretation of the observational language. For the observational language as a sub-language, non-observational terms were initially assumed to be explicitly definable in observational terms, and later assumed to have necessary or sufficient conditions in observational terms. In the final version of the Received View, no specific relations between observational terms and theoretical terms were assumed. The Received View also provided the framework for conceptualizations of explanation, confirmation, reduction, criteria of cognitive significance, the analytic-synthetic distinction, and concept formation. Many criticisms of the Received View in the philosophy of science rely on misrepresentations.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lutz, Sebastian sebastian.lutz@gmx.net 0000-0003-4274-4174
Additional Information:	To appear in Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamas Tuboly (ed.): Routledge Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Science
Keywords:	logical empiricism; received view; syntactic view; dual-level conception of language; semantic empiricism; Rudolf Carnap; Gustav Hempel; Hilary Putnam
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Structure of Theories
Depositing User:	Sebastian Lutz
Date Deposited:	31 Dec 2024 13:53
Last Modified:	31 Dec 2024 13:53
Item ID:	24461
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Structure of Theories
Date:	2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24461

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