Logical Empiricism and Naturalism: Neurath and Carnap's Metatheory of Science

Dr. Bentley's primary interests are in the history of analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy of science, and in applying the insights gained from these historical studies to contemporary issues, primarily in philosophy of science and epistemology. His recent research focuses particularly on the work of Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, and explores their respective projects providing a meta-theory for science. He is attempting to demonstrate the compatibility of their two projects as a form of naturalized epistemology which retains a conventional analytic/synthetic distinction, and is therefore distinct from more familiar Quinean approaches to epistemological naturalism.

Dr. Bentley博士的主要研究興趣在於分析哲學的歷史和科學哲學的歷史，並將從這些歷史研究中獲得的見解應用於當代問題，主要是科學哲學和認識論。他最近的研究專注於Otto Neurath和Rudolf Carnap的工作，並探討他們各自為科學提供元理論的項目。他試圖證明他們兩個項目的相容性，作為一種自然化認識論，保留了傳統的分析/綜合區別，因此與更為熟悉的奎因式認識論自然主義方法有所不同。