Carl Gustav Hempel
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (8 Januari 1905 – 9 November 1997) adalah penulis dan filsuf Jerman. Ia merupakan tokoh utama dalam empirisisme logika, aliran filsafat ilmu abad ke-20. Ia dikenal atas karyanya tentang model deduktif-nomologis penjelasan ilmiah yang diakui sebagai "model standar" penjelasan ilmiah tahun 1950-an dan 19660-an. Ia juga dikenal sebagai pencetus paradoks gagak (kadang disebut "paradoks Hempel").[2]
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| Lahir | 8 Januari 1905 Oranienburg, Jerman |
| Meninggal | 9 November 1997 (umur 92) Princeton, New Jersey, Amerika Serikat |
| Almamater | Universitas Göttingen Universitas Berlin Universitas Heidelberg |
| Era | Filsafat abad ke-20 |
| Kawasan | Filsafat Barat |
| Aliran | Filsafat analitis |
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- 1936: "Über den Gehalt von Wahrscheinlichkeitsaussagen" dan "Der Typusbegriff im Licht der neuen Logik" (bersama Paul Oppenheim)
- 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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- Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays (1965), ISBN 0-02-914340-3.
- Selected Philosophical Essays (2000), ISBN 0-521-62475-4.
- The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality (2001), ISBN 0-19-512136-8.
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- ″On the Nature of Mathematical Truth″ and ″Geometry and Empirical Science″ (1945), American Mathematical Monthly, issue 52.
- Articles in Readings in Philosophical Analysis (pp. 222–249), edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars (Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1949).
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- Dilema Hempel
- Paradoks gagak, kadang disebut "paradoks Hempel".
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- Holt, Jim, "Positive Thinking" (review of Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, Basic Books, 449 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXIV, no. 20 (21 December 2017), pp. 74–76.
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- Carl Gustav Hempel at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- "Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning" by Carl G. Hempel
- Obituary by the Princeton University Office of Communications.
- Carl Gustav Hempel Papers, 1903-1997, ASP.1999.01 at the Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh.
- Obituary in the New York Times.