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(with the Union of German Academies of Science behind it), to put ALL of Carnap’s writings online, published and unpublished, in critical and comprehensively annoted editions.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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Here are the proofs I was sent of Carnap’s “Value Concepts” fragment of 1958; have a look at Carnap’s institutional affiliation. Quite a coup for Hannes Leitgeb to be able to attract such people, even from beyond the Styx!
Also of course it’s rather nice to be listed as Carnap’s co-author but unfortunately I’m going to have to correct that. This will be its only appearance.
Apologies for the absence of posts over the past few weeks, and thanks to those who keep coming back to see what’s up. I will get back on track now, and may even have a few comments on the CLMPS in Helsinki next week, where I’m giving one of those mini-papers, but mostly interested in what others have to say.