Rudolf Carnap: Early Writings: The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1Rudolf Carnap (1891 1970) is generally acknowledged to have been one of the central figures of twentieth century philosophy. He was the leading philosopher of the Vienna Circle, a group that was central to the international movement known as logical empiricism, which pursued the goal of making philosophy scientific and eliminating metaphysics that went beyond the limits of what humans can coherently comprehend. Carnap was not only well versed in this