Carl Gustav Hempel was a German philosopher, writer, logician, and epistemologist who became a major figure in logical empiricism, the twentieth century movement in the philosophy of science. He articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which stood as the standard model of scientific explanation through the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox, sometimes called Hempel's paradox, and for Hempel's dilemma.
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Defining MomentArticulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation 1 Notable PublicationAspects of Scientific Explanation (1965) 1 Office HeldUniversity Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (from 1977) 1 BirthplaceOranienburg, German Empire 1 Death PlacePrinceton, New Jersey, U.S. 1 TraditionAnalytic philosophy, Berlin Circle, Logical behaviorism 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, originated there.
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1. Wikipedia: Carl Gustav Hempel
Lead paragraph, birth year
January 8, 1905
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1905-01-08
Lead paragraph, death year
November 9, 1997
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1997-11-09
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Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
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Analytic philosophy, Berlin Circle, Logical behaviorism
Bibliography, Principal works
1965: Aspects of Scientific Explanation
Career, Pittsburgh sentence
becoming University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1977
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Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation
Infobox, birth_place
Oranienburg, German Empire
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