Feasibility Study for Carnap Collected Works

Richard Creath（亚利桑那州立大学）“卡尔纳普文集”的可行性研究”最近在科学哲学界发生了一些奇怪的事情。就在鲁道夫·卡尔纳普和其他逻辑经验主义者的作品似乎从几乎被遗忘的状态中被拯救出来的时候，卡尔纳普最重要、最具启发性的著作大部分已经绝版了。卡尔纳普是二十世纪中期一位极具影响力的科学哲学家和逻辑学家。尽管他的作品在20世纪70年代已经过时，但其历史和实质性的重要性正在重新得到认可——在20世纪80年代缓慢，在90年代更为强烈。奇怪的是，与此同时，他几乎所有的主要作品都已绝版。因此，它们现在无法在课堂上使用，无法为年轻的学者所用，而且往往无法以任何形式（包括电子形式）获得，甚至在研究图书馆也无法获得。为了纠正这种情况，卡尔纳普学者建议出版一本“卡尔纳普作品集”，首先包括所有已出版的材料，其次是未出版的作品中最重要的部分。在此之前，这个目标似乎是不可能实现的。卡尔纳普家族的经纪人似乎不合作，版权不确定，出版社不愿意，没有人愿意与这一切抗争，承担至少12到15卷的编辑工作。在过去一年中（在某些方面在过去几周内），情况发生了变化。卡尔纳普家族的文学顾问去世了，私家侦探接替了这个角色。许多（但不是全部）版权已得到澄清。一家主要出版社原则上同意以任何一种或几种看来最合适的形式出版。一小部分著名学者原则上同意担任编辑委员会。PI也原则上同意担任总编辑。除非项目的可行性计划（范围、时间表和预算）能够相当快地制定出来，否则这一切都不会发生。为此，我们必须探索现有的文集项目模型，包括哥德尔论文、皮尔斯论文和爱迪生电子版。正如这个简短的例子列表所示，我们还将探索电子和基于网络的出版物，以了解哪种出版物最合理。这项探索性研究小额赠款支持这项探索性研究，旨在为“卡尔纳普文集”制定出版计划。

SES 00-86581 - Richard Creath (Arizona State University)"Feasibility Study for 'Carnap Collected Works'"Something odd has happened recently in the world of philosophy of science. Just as it seemed that the work of Rudolf Carnap and other logical empiricists was being rescued from near oblivion, the most important and illuminating of Carnap's publications have largely gone out of print. Carnap was an enormously influential mid-twentieth century philosopher of science and logician. Although his work had gone out of fashion by the 1970s, its historical and substantive importance was being recognized anew -- slowly in the 1980s and more strongly in the 90s. Oddly, at the same time virtually all of his major works were going out of print. Thus, they are now unavailable for classroom use, unavailable for younger scholars, and often unavailable in any form (including electronic form) even in research libraries. To remedy this situation Carnap scholars have proposed the publication of a "Carnap Collected Works," to include first all of the published material and second the most important parts of the unpublished work. Until now this goal had seemed impossible. The Carnap family's agent had seemed uncooperative, the copyrights were uncertain, presses were unwilling, and no one was eager to fight all this to undertake the editing of at least 12 to 15 volumes. Within the last year (and in some respects within the last weeks) the situation has changed. The literary advisor to the Carnap family died, and the PI has taken on that role. Many, but not all, of the copyrights have been clarified. A major press has agreed in principle to undertake publication in whatever form or forms seems most appropriate. A small group of prominent scholars has agreed in principle to serve as an editorial board. And the PI has agreed, again in principle, to serve as the general editor. None of this will happen unless feasibility plans (scope, timetable, and budget) for the project can be developed fairly quickly. For this purpose we must explore existing models for collected works projects including, for example, the Goedel papers, the Peirce papers, and the electronic Edison edition. As this short list of examples suggests, we will also explore electronic and web-based publication in order to see what sort of publication makes the most sense. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research supports this exploratory study, designed to lead to a publication plan for the "Carnap Collected Works."