[News] IVC Talk: Ingolf Max (IVC Fellow, University of Leipzig) on "Some Remarks on Carnap's Ingenuity in Creating Logical Forms", April 23, 4.45 pm

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Ingolf Max (IVC Fellow, University of Leipzig), who will give a talk on April 23, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Ingolf Max (IVC Fellow, University of Leipzig)* Some Remarks on Carnap's Ingenuity in Creating Logical Forms Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. * Date:* 23/04/2026 * Time:* 16h45 * Venue:* New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 3C * Abstract:* Carnap's logical-philosophical oeuvre is characterized by his remarkable creativity in inventing and using new logical forms. This applies to all areas of semiotics: from syntax via semantics through to pragmatics. In my talk, I will consider some paradigmatic cases: (a) /basic structures/ in his Quasizerlegung/Quasianalyse (quasi-decomposition/quasi-analysis), (b) the concept of /state descriptions/ inspired by Leibniz and Wittgenstein to get a semantics for intensional contexts, and (c) the proposal to use certain /n-ary predicates/ with /n/ ≥ 3 as basic patterns of concepts of formal pragmatics. Every decision for a logical form is philosophically motivated and, in Carnap's case, always made with the aim of constructing a logical theory.