A new project has been launched at the LMU (University of Munich), funded by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (with the Union of German Academies of Science behind it), to put ALL of Carnap’s writings online, published and unpublished, in critical and comprehensively annoted editions. This is obviously a huge and challenging project, and it has been funded accordingly — assuming the project meets its interim goals, the Academy’s funding is assured through 2050. The project, entitled “Rudolf Carnap Digital,” is attached to the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where I am based; its principals are my co-author Hannes Leitgeb (who btw won the Leibniz Prize last year!), Stephan Hartmann (also at MCMP), and Eckhart Arnold (Bavarian Academy). Christian Damböck (whose successful track record in Carnap-related projects includes the Carnap diaries, whose first installment I reviewed for the HOPOS Journal) will manage the project. Congratulations to everyone involved — it’s taken years (and lots of work) to get us to this point!
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Endlich! (Another update on vol. 1)
Vol. 1 of the Carnap edition is now officially available on the Oxford University Press site, for immediate order. Amazon.co.uk is now saying it will be available on Friday (12 July), and is charging the same price as OUP’s own site (which, though high, is much more reasonable than I’d feared). I’m not sure which of the two would arrive sooner if you order it before Friday. After that I’d definitely guess Amazon would be quicker. The German and American Amazon sites are saying the book will be released on 25 August, so you’re better off ordering from Amazon UK or OUP direct (be sure to use their British site, with prices in pounds sterling, or you’ll get the same availability date as the German or American Amazon sites).
The advance copies to the editors and the editorial board are on their way; I’ve already received mine. I won’t post a photo, since it won’t convey any more information than the one in the previous post, but I must say that I’m very pleased with the result of all those years of work, and congratulate OUP on the job they did with it. They deserve their status as the world’s leading philosophy publisher; it looks terrific!
Update on vol. 1: Internal questions of existence
It does exist (relative to the “thing language”)! OUP sent me this photo of an advance copy. I’m told that once this is approved, the book will be released, most likely this week (I will update again once that occurs). Until then OUP and Amazon will still be accepting pre-orders.
Carnap’s Collected Writings vol. 1: Now published!
Sorry about the long interruption, but now I can resume with some good news. From today, the long-awaited first volume of Oxford’s 14-volume edition of the Collected Writings of Rudolf Carnap is finally available (from OUP directly and, apparently with some delay, from Amazon.co.uk — the Amazon site in Germany shows a publication date in August, and those in France and the US list it as “temporarily out of stock,” but OUP and Amazon UK deliver to those countries — and presumably others).
It’s been years and years of work, and I’m very glad we finally have something to show for our labors. There are too many people to thank, and I won’t even try here — but see the volume 1 editors’ acknowledgements reproduced below.
For those who haven’t yet seen the propaganda, I will summarize it:
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