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By now it has become commonplace to note that the early Carnap was strongly influenced by Kant and the neo-Kantianism of his day.¹ As early as 1977 Haack noted some striking similarities between the Aufbau and the first Critique; since then, Haack's observation has been underscored by documenting the explicit role of the neo-Kantians in Carnap's early education and intellectual development.² Whether or not Carnap in the Aufbau was at all interested in traditional empiricism, or even strongly influenced by Russell, remains debatable.³ However, a decisive early influence of Kant cannot be persuasively denied. Nevertheless, Kant and the neo-Kantians do not comprise the whole story. An equally important influence on Carnap in Der Raum (his doctoral dissertation), though perhaps slightly less so in the Aufbau, was Husserl.⁴ This paper begins the project of tracing the precise extent and nature of that influence.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0151-8_11

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