Carl Gustav Hempel
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Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
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Bibliography
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Principal works
- 1936: "Über den Gehalt von Wahrscheinlichkeitsaussagen" and, with Paul Oppenheim, "Der Typusbegriff im Licht der neuen Logik"
- 1942: The Function of General Laws in History
- 1943: Studies in the Logic of Confirmation
- 1959: The Logic of Functional Analysis
- 1965: Aspects of Scientific Explanation
- 1966: Philosophy of Natural Science
- 1967: Scientific Explanation
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See also
- Hempel's dilemma
- Raven paradox, also known as "Hempel's paradox".
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