Series Editor's Foreword Notes on Contributors Notes on References Introduction; P.Wagner PART I: HISTORICAL SITUATION OF CARNAP'S IDEAL OF EXPLICATION Carnap's Place in Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; A.Richardson Carnap, Pseudo-Problems, and Ontological Questions; G.Gabriel Carnap, Turing and Wittgenstein: Contrasting Notions of Analysis; J.Floyd Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Aufklärung; J.Bouveresse Carnap's Boundless Ocean of Unlimited Possibilities: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism; T.Mormann PART II: CARNAP'S IDEAL OF EXPLICATION: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS AND EXAMPLES Carnap's Conception of Philosophy; W.Kienzler Carnapian Explication: A Case Study and Critique; E.Reck The Bipartite Conception of Metatheory and the Dialectical Conception of Explication; T.Uebel Explicating 'analytic'; S.Awodey Carnap and the Semantical Explication of Analyticity; P.de Rouilhan PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE Before Explication; R.Creath Natural Languages, Formal Systems, and Explication; P.Wagner Rational Reconstruction, Explication, and the Rejection of Metaphysics; M.Friedman The Perils of Pollyanna; M.Wilson Engineers and Drifters: The Ideal of Explication and its Critics; A.Carus Bibliography Index