Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (born 1905)

Carl Gustav Hempel

German writer and philosopher (1905–1997)

Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel 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…