Carl Gustav Hempel
German writer and philosopher
Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Wikipedia
Born: January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany
Died: November 9, 1997 (age 92 years), Princeton, NJ
Influenced by: Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and more
Doctoral advisors: Hans Reichenbach, Wolfgang Köhler, Nicolai Hartmann
Doctoral students: Adolf Grünbaum; Jaegwon Kim; Robert Nozick; John Earman; Philip Kitcher
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