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63 - Thomas Ryckman & Mark Wilson: The State of Analytic Philosophy

63 - Thomas Ryckman & Mark Wilson: The State of Analytic Philosophy

Robinson's Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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Thomas Ryckman is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University,
where he works on the philosophy of physics. Mark Wilson is
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Pittsburgh, where he works at the intersection of the philosophy
of math and physics on the one side and metaphysics and the
philosophy of language on the other. Tom, Mark, and Robinson
discuss the present state of analytic philosophy, the dominant
tradition in the United States, including some potential
obstacles and important ideas of the twentieth century that have
been forgotten.

OUTLINE:

00:00 Introduction

2:07 Tom and Mark’s Friendship

9:46 Problems with Contemporary Analytic Philosophy

15:18 Hertz and a Metaphysical Notion of Force

18:04 Thoughts on Wittgenstein

20:40 Mark and the French Structuralists

29:41 The Single Greatest Problem Confronting Analytic Philosophy
Today

37:45 Some Thoughts on Grounding

1:02:40 Mach, Duhem, Hertz, and Analytic Philosophy

1:14:26 A Historical Overemphasis on Logic

1:29:54 Final Thoughts on the Current State of Academic
Philosophy

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
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