20th century · 1891–1970
Who influenced Rudolf Carnap?
Influences and legacy
Rebuilt philosophy as the logical analysis of science and language.
Rudolf Carnap was influenced by Ernst Mach, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, and went on to influence W. V. O. Quine, A. J. Ayer and Saul Kripke. That is 6 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Rudolf Carnap?
Rudolf Carnap was a German philosopher and logician who worked in Europe until 1935 and in the United States after that.
He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and one of the main advocates of logical positivism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Rudolf Carnap?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Ernst Mach 1838–1916
- Gottlob Frege 1848–1925
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
Who did Rudolf Carnap influence?
3 thinkers on this map draw directly on Rudolf Carnap.
- W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
- A. J. Ayer 1910–1989
- Saul Kripke 1940–2022
The line of teachers behind Rudolf Carnap
The longest documented line of influence ending at Rudolf Carnap runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- T. H. Green
- F. H. Bradley
- Bertrand Russell
- Rudolf Carnap
Two steps away from Rudolf Carnap
Indirect influences
- Through Bertrand Russell: John Stuart Mill, F. H. Bradley, G. E. Moore
- Through Gottlob Frege: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant
The second generation
- Through W. V. O. Quine: Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, David Lewis
Contemporaries of Rudolf Carnap
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Rudolf Carnap, with no direct line between them.
- Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937
- Edith Stein 1891–1942
- Walter Benjamin 1892–1940
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Roman Ingarden 1893–1970
- Mikhail Bakhtin 1895–1975
- Max Horkheimer 1895–1973
Rudolf Carnap by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 3 — #42 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 105
- Thinkers downstream
- 6
- Wikipedia languages
- 57 — #41 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Rudolf Carnap
- Who influenced Rudolf Carnap?
- Ernst Mach, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell.
- Who did Rudolf Carnap influence?
- W. V. O. Quine, A. J. Ayer and Saul Kripke.
- When did Rudolf Carnap live?
- 1891–1970. The map files Rudolf Carnap under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Rudolf Carnap card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Rudolf Carnap in 57 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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