CARL GUSTAV HEMPEL (1905-1997) was one of the preeminent figures in the philosophical movement of logical empiricism. He was a member of both the Berlin and Vienna Circles, fled Germany in 1934, and finally settled in the United States where he taught for forty-five years in New York, New Haven, Princeton, and Pittsburgh.
Richard Jeffrey has prepared the collection for publication, and he has supplied introductory surveys to the essays as well as a brief biographical sketch on Hempel.