Carl Gustav Hempel
Carl Gustav Hempel | |
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| Born | January 8, 1905 |
| Died | November 9, 1997 (aged 92) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Göttingen University of Berlin (PhD, 1934) Heidelberg University |
| Thesis | Beiträge zur logischen Analyse des Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs (Contributions to the Logical Analysis of the Concept of Probability) (1934) |
| Doctoral advisors | Hans Reichenbach, Wolfgang Köhler, Nicolai Hartmann |
| Other advisors | Rudolf Carnap |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Berlin Circle Logical behaviorism |
| Institutions | University of Chicago City College of New York Yale University Princeton University Hebrew University University of Pittsburgh |
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Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (/ˈhɛmpəl/; German: [ˈhɛmpl̩]; January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Hempel articulated 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 ("Hempel's paradox") and Hempel's dilemma.