The Politics of Carnap's Non-Cognitivism and the Scientific World-Conception of Left-Wing Logical Empiricism (2022)
Based on a reconstruction of the development of Rudolf Carnap's views from the Aufbau until the 1960s, this paper provides an account of the philosopher's understanding of non-cognitivism, which is here seen as in line with the so-called scientific worldconception of left-wing logical empiricism. The starting point of Carnap's conception is the claim that every human decision depends on certain attitudes that cannot be justified at a cognitive level, that are neither based on empirical facts nor logical reasoning. The key features of Carnap's noncognitivism, however, go beyond this general basis and involve several fundamentally moral commitments, such as a commitment toward science, and the embracing of moral attitudes as the result of a long-term process of rational discourse. I argue that these commitments contained in Carnap's non-cognitivism/scientific world-conception establish a genuinely political worldview that is characteristic of left-wing logical empiricism and converges with socialism and democracy.
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