The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and place online the complete works of Rudolf Carnap.
Led by Hannes Leitgeb and Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich) together with Eckhart Arnold (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities), the project, “Rudolf Carnap Digital,” will run for 25 years under the German Academies’ Programme.
According to Professor Hartmann, the project
will produce the first complete scholarly edition of Carnap’s oeuvre, covering both his published writings and an extensive, largely inaccessible archive: over 100,000 manuscript pages, seven decades of diaries, and nearly 10,000 letters. These materials will be made available through three interconnected outputs: a full facsimile archive, a digital critical edition, and a bilingual study edition, all published open access.
Additionally, an open-access platform is being developed that will make Carnap’s “logical deductions available as digital mathematical objects,” according to the BAdW announcement of the project here.
That’s great news. Does anyone know how this squares with the ongoing project of publishing Carnap’s complete works at OUP? In particular, will the new project use OUP translations and commentaries, or will this be a completely different thing?
It will not be a completely different thing – the Carnap Digital project will be continuing – and will complete 🙂 – the OUP edition.