Carnap was born in Wuppertal, Germany. He was a philosopher in Germany and Austria until 1935. As the Nationalist Socialist Party rose to power, Carnap became weary of Europe and moved to the U.S. His last post was as a professor of philosophy at UCLA. He had previously refused to work for the UC system because it requires signing an oath of allegiance. Carnap was in principle opposed to signing an oath of allegiance (emphasis on
was). He was a member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate for logical positivism. He saw the main task of philosophy as clarifying language and concepts for empirical sciences.
"In science there are no depths; there is surface everywhere."
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