Hempel

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Hempel is a surname most notably associated with Carl Hempel, a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science and member of the logical positivist movement.

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instanceOf family name
human
logical empiricist
logical positivist
philosopher
philosopher of science
surname
citizenship Germany
United States of America
countryOfBirth German Empire
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1905-01-08
dateOfDeath 1997-11-09
educatedAt Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Göttingen
University of Heidelberg NERFINISHED
University of Vienna
employer City College of New York
Princeton University
University of Pittsburgh
Yale University
familyName Hempel self-linksurface differs
fieldOfWork epistemology
logic
philosophy of science
givenName Carl Gustav
hasNotableBearer Carl Hempel
surface form: Carl Gustav Hempel
influencedBy Hans Reichenbach
Moritz Schlick
Rudolf Carnap
knownFor Hempel's paradox
surface form: Hempel's raven paradox

Aspects of Scientific Explanation
surface form: deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation

work on confirmation theory
languageOfOrigin German
memberOf Berlin Circle
Vienna Circle
movement logical positivism
surface form: logical empiricism

logical positivism
notableWork Aspects of Scientific Explanation
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation
The Function of General Laws in History
placeOfBirth Oranienburg
placeOfDeath Princeton, New Jersey, United States
surface form: Princeton, New Jersey
residence Princeton, New Jersey, United States
surface form: Princeton, New Jersey
spouse Eva Ahrends Hempel
usedByLanguage German
workLocation United States of America

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Carl Hempel familyName Hempel
Hempel familyName Hempel self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Carl Gustav Hempel