Carl Gustav Hempel

Carl Gustav Hempel
Born	(1905-01-08)January 8, 1905 Oranienburg, German Empire
Died	November 9, 1997(1997-11-09) (aged 92) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	University of Göttingen University of Berlin (PhD, 1934) Heidelberg University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy Berlin Circle Logical behaviorism[1]
Institutions	University of Chicago City College of New York Yale University Princeton University Hebrew University University of Pittsburgh
Thesis	Beiträge zur logischen Analyse des Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs (Contributions to the Logical Analysis of the Concept of Probability) (1934)
Doctoral advisors	Hans Reichenbach, Wolfgang Köhler, Nicolai Hartmann
Other academic advisors	Rudolf Carnap[2]
Doctoral students	Adolf Grünbaum Jaegwon Kim Robert Nozick John Earman Philip Kitcher
Other notable students	Robert Stalnaker Carl Icahn
Main interests	Philosophy of science Logic Confirmation theory
Notable ideas	Deductive-nomological model Inductive-statistical model[3] Internal vs. bridge principles[4] Hempel's dilemma Raven paradox Explanandum and explanans

Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. Hempel articulated the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox ("Hempel's paradox")^[5] and Hempel's dilemma.