Analytic Philosophy: Frege

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  • Introduction to Analytic Philosophy; Frege and the Problem of Identity, class 2 of The Analytic Tradition, Spring 2017

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  • @philosophe5319
    @philosophe5319 Před 6 lety +167

    If you don’t want to hear students offering definitions of what they think analytic philosophy means, the video starts at 14:05

  • @user-gy4sy5dg9c
    @user-gy4sy5dg9c Před 2 lety +29

    I wish my teacher was as passionnate, structured and clear as you. Thank you so much

    • @jestaman3356
      @jestaman3356 Před 2 lety +4

      Seriously! many subjects can be ruined by a bad professor. Philosophy definitely relies on a great professor (at least imo)

    • @samuellyngdoh5317
      @samuellyngdoh5317 Před 2 lety

      where do u stay? western countries usually have way more friendlier teachers who are also more clear and better at teaching. I stay in india and teaching here is so stressful because the teahers have no chill and fail to stimulate intrest in the studnts. Compared to india western teaching is miles ahead. thats why i want to study in western countries in the future

  • @zlatkoc7113
    @zlatkoc7113 Před 3 lety +18

    I just stumble upon this awesome man days ago. This is pure gold! Love your brain and personality.
    You can see how he tries to get the students to use their own mind.
    Thank you!

  • @allentowncola937
    @allentowncola937 Před 7 lety +29

    Those examples of euphemisms were all from that Geoge Carlin bit on soft language.Great lecture as always.

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 Před 3 lety +4

    My own philosophy professor used to hit me with the morning star / evening star conundrum. It has finally become clear to me that the Morning star isn’t a thing and it’s not a name, it’s a Description of the relationship between the observer and an object.

  • @Richard1979hush
    @Richard1979hush Před 3 lety +3

    @Daniel Bonevac your friendly spirit makes it a pleasure to learn from you

  • @sandragalicia7549
    @sandragalicia7549 Před 7 měsíci +3

    What an amazing class! Thanks for the explanation.

  • @WilfridCyrus
    @WilfridCyrus Před 5 měsíci +2

    Thanks prof! I'm going to watch the whole course.

  • @helena.h.m7411
    @helena.h.m7411 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you for sharing, I really do enjoy your lectures!

  • @davystrangename
    @davystrangename Před 7 lety +14

    Thank you for uploading your lectures on CZcams!

  • @hereticmorte666
    @hereticmorte666 Před 4 lety

    thank you for posting these online.

  • @youneschebini5280
    @youneschebini5280 Před rokem +3

    this is how college should teach students, amazing!

  • @Mr.Jasaw13
    @Mr.Jasaw13 Před 3 lety

    thanks for uploading ^^ love the passion
    been benefiting from these quite a bit

  • @vincentmutale4562
    @vincentmutale4562 Před 6 lety +3

    thanx for the lectures. I enjoy listening to the lectures and ideas of the great minds

  • @gda295
    @gda295 Před 4 lety +3

    think i will go the heidegger / ponty route . thnx for lectures tho
    and uv of texas does a great job generally sharing its resources w/o putting everything b/h a paywall
    Also ' i went down to the Piraeus' a great first line

  • @die_schlechtere_Milch
    @die_schlechtere_Milch Před 5 lety +1

    thank you for uploading!

  • @kehindeonakunle7404
    @kehindeonakunle7404 Před 2 lety

    Great lecture, very enriching

  • @qbqbqbqbqbqb
    @qbqbqbqbqbqb Před 3 lety

    I see that there is a reading list, but is there a guide to which materials should be read before which lectures? E.g. I see that Frege is listed under additional readings, but there's no specifics about what texts are required.

  • @subjeti
    @subjeti Před 3 lety +2

    Great class

  • @Tlll123
    @Tlll123 Před 4 lety +8

    It's nice to have a lot of class interaction, but most of time the students are raising great points that are not to the point of the content itself. Apparent the prof. is very knowledgable and can often relate to these ideas, but the whole thing makes the class a bit scattered

    • @benjamincarnehl1474
      @benjamincarnehl1474 Před 3 lety +6

      That's just what you get in an undergrad philosophy class, I think.

  • @thranduiloropherion7756
    @thranduiloropherion7756 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank you

  • @tristanjager4112
    @tristanjager4112 Před 4 lety +5

    I was wondering whether it’s the case that everyone who knows the referent of H20 also knows what water refers to, but there may be some people who know what water is but do not know that H20 refers to the same thing. The same may be said about Bruce Wayne, given more information, they would also be known as Batman. Is there some element of ‘refinement of understanding’ (in regards to terms having the same relation but differing scopes of meaning)?

    • @jareddelgado4233
      @jareddelgado4233 Před 3 lety

      I think what your saying on differing scopes of meaning is a good way to think ab it

    • @jareddelgado4233
      @jareddelgado4233 Před 3 lety

      is this a kind of conceptualism? I think this needs to be further expressed in observational sciences, kinda like your H20 example, however, I'm reading a book that kinda addresses this issue in further depth just from a different scope..... I hope haha

  • @nickw6229
    @nickw6229 Před 4 lety

    thank you!

  • @user-vu9ru4ud6c
    @user-vu9ru4ud6c Před rokem +2

    Dang I feel so dumb after watching this lecture. I disliked philosophy because it was so pretentious, but after actually learning it it was just like the basic ground that hold other concepts… i guess philosophy is needed not just for ‘life lessons’ but also to live in a present and apply it for better life

  • @zacharysmith4508
    @zacharysmith4508 Před 3 lety +1

    @34:14 Could you point someone in the direction of this, talk of reason?

  • @yogi2436
    @yogi2436 Před 7 lety +14

    Great lectures, thanks!

  • @christiannweke9657
    @christiannweke9657 Před 2 lety

    Thank you Sir

  • @lavabeard5939
    @lavabeard5939 Před 2 lety +1

    surprised no one mentioned logic when hes probing for what analysis refers to

  • @njdawgs1
    @njdawgs1 Před 2 lety

    Frege starts analytic philosophy saying a=a and a=b. The former is uninformative and a priori, the latter is informative like the morning star = the evening star.
    Is there a problem that names are the identity?
    Object->concept->word
    Triangle->concept of triangle->word triangle

  • @ahmedbellankas2549
    @ahmedbellankas2549 Před rokem +1

    Is kant an analytic philosopher? What about algazahli ? Socrates ? Avicenna ?

  • @TheKinix13
    @TheKinix13 Před 3 lety

    Thanks

  • @maxpercer7119
    @maxpercer7119 Před rokem

    example of "a = b "
    cos^2(x) + sin^2 (x)= 1 for any real number x.

  • @yinka661
    @yinka661 Před 4 lety +3

    Identity associations sounds like they are talking about ‘data lineage’ in computing.

  • @murathax6587
    @murathax6587 Před rokem

    Why aren't the subtitles on :(

  • @robertstevens1287
    @robertstevens1287 Před 4 lety

    Dude, how come your class is so smart

  • @user-vu9ru4ud6c
    @user-vu9ru4ud6c Před rokem

    So analytic philosophy is more cognitive instead of intuitive, so it means it can be easily applied to real life like independence and freedom i guess

  • @9jalicious
    @9jalicious Před rokem

    Question: How can anything exist independently of the Mind? If we need the mind in order to conceive it's existence? 🕵🏽‍♀️🤔

    • @jacobvandijk6525
      @jacobvandijk6525 Před 5 měsíci

      The universe doesn't need anyone to exist. But for you, it only exists through your mind.

  • @wilhelm.reeves
    @wilhelm.reeves Před 4 lety +3

    R.I.P Batman

  • @ThePeaceableKingdom
    @ThePeaceableKingdom Před 7 lety +4

    there's an echo in here!

  • @baronvonbeandip
    @baronvonbeandip Před 2 lety

    23:18 Wish someone had piped up with a "That which cannot be named is not the Holy Dao". See if he'd instinctively bridge the gap to Heidegger.

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety

    deem! totally both infrom and uniform...

  • @vincentpieterse1694
    @vincentpieterse1694 Před 4 lety +1

    Didn't know Will Ferrell's dad taught Philosophy

  • @johnvilla3
    @johnvilla3 Před 7 lety

    From a=a or the ancient law of identity a is a and a=b, Frege extrapolates the knowledge that b=c by using Aristotle's most basic syllogism since all syllogisms may be reduced to this one, F=B=I the Francis Bacon Intel or Francis Drake is intelligent and then a return of the Great Armada is possible in time for the finals.

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety

    so your saying smart is =smart focused !

  • @njdawgs1
    @njdawgs1 Před 2 lety +1

    Last lecture:
    Philosophy is a study to reconcile what is in our mind with what is in our world. Plato's forms tried to create a mind independent object that everyone relates objects perceived in the world to. Skeptics say, well what is that object, how can there be only one, and doesnt everyone have a different idea of forms? Well shit okay, Plato says "the forms are then ideas that are bestowed upon everyone by Good light". Huh thats interesting but not convincing, the same problems exist.
    Religious scholars take Platos idea of forms but instead of the Good light, they posit God is the one who gives us these ideas that are fundamental and universal. Wow thats great for about 1500 years. Descartes comes along to say fuck off, "what if there is a different god that tries to mess with us instead of giving the right forms? What if God is bad?" That prompted him to say there only ideas within the mind. The world as it is exists independently from the mind with all primary charcteristics, but we cannot know this world. The appearance of it is all we can know. Our mind is like a projector that interprets the world. Kant argues a similar point with the distinction that buology and evolution can explain our a priori knowledge of the world, so we can rely on that.
    Hume doesnt like the idea of a mind independent world. Why should there be this world that we can neither see nor really know. All that exists is the appearance through our eyes. This would mean everybody has their own understanding of the world and no one form exists that we can rely on for finite and truth, which deeply troubles people. This lecture continues the stoey

  • @lucassilvasantos4844
    @lucassilvasantos4844 Před 2 lety

    Good morning I am to Brazil! I am sorry to my English.
    Would very good to legends, in Brazil no have very study's serious about philosophy analitic.

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety

    i caught you daniel is = danny B. ~@BaTmaN

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety

    my math score is high!!

  • @CTHD13
    @CTHD13 Před rokem

    13:08 RIP to the student who has now been called stupid on record (I get why he brings it up, it’s just funny)

  • @Mandibil
    @Mandibil Před 4 lety +2

    if a = b then b must be identical to a. Therefore stating a = b is the same as stating a = a, which is also tautological .. we are none the wiser !!!

    • @aam29dc13
      @aam29dc13 Před 4 lety +2

      a = a is Law of identity. a = b isn't the same as a = a, for example: a = 100 and b = 9*11 + 1, then b = 99 + 1 = 100 therefore a = b.

    • @Mandibil
      @Mandibil Před 4 lety

      aam29dc if a is not the same as b then the expression a = b is false

    • @Mandibil
      @Mandibil Před 4 lety

      aam29dc Santa Claus = Santa Claus ... what have I proven the identity of? Santa Claus = Father Christmas... is that any different ?

    • @aam29dc13
      @aam29dc13 Před 4 lety

      @@Mandibil samething as before: a = a, and b = b, and we find b = ... = a

    • @Mandibil
      @Mandibil Před 4 lety

      @@aam29dc13 So it is epistemologically circular. Your knowledge has not been hightened in any way

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety

    pure ethic is that reason for disregarding country music !

  • @kantamana1
    @kantamana1 Před rokem

    Apropos pronouncing philosophers names, Søren Kierkegaard is pronounced "sir-on keer-geh-gore"

  • @KittyBoyPurr
    @KittyBoyPurr Před rokem

    Coreferencial=Referencing the same thing.

  • @pw11299
    @pw11299 Před 3 lety

    23:39 Less is more

  • @augustopolveiro2523
    @augustopolveiro2523 Před 4 lety

    Just wondering if anyone else felt bothered by the statement water=H2O, as it would be saying water = the thing composed by H2O molecules. I would ask than, what is H2O? And the answer would be chemestry based, and than a physics based and so on. This means things lacks essences (or you define essence as lock did as the inner composition of things = the molecular structure) ou that essences are entities, but if you do so, than you have an infinite regression problem. (Yes, I am a real essentialist)

    • @thissideofmyworld7216
      @thissideofmyworld7216 Před 2 lety +1

      I know this comment is old but for anyone interested, I don't think the What is question has anything to do with what Frege is trying to accomplish here. What is important is the identity formula and how the names designate the same object but in an informative manner. Let's not assume explanation or meaning are the same as naming/designating. What Frege, I believe, is doing goes beyond physics or scientific explanations but focus on how the designating process works and how it returns different cognitive values on different situations (with diverses naming types)

  • @NavAK_86
    @NavAK_86 Před 6 lety

    How is 2+2=4 informative? Isn't it just a tautology? You already know it's 4 without the = part. I'd presume it was a priori and analytical/non-informative.

    • @Archie.Fisher
      @Archie.Fisher Před 5 lety +6

      Think of longer, more complex equations. 2+2=4 seems uninformative because you can tell it's true at a glance, but it still provides more information than a=a.

  • @mrlemongrapeful
    @mrlemongrapeful Před 2 lety

    DGG4L

  • @johnhouse9983
    @johnhouse9983 Před 5 lety +1

    I'm 56 now, as a teenager i had a near death experience via solvent abuse, despite the close call i repeated the practise several times as the answers to ''everything'' comes tantalising close each time you get close to passing through the channel of death, not only did i witness the true nature of matter and flesh, i wondered in the suicide zone, walked side by side with all millions of beings from alternate planes, by the way once you see them and they see you your life is altered and never the same, one thing is universally true and a fact for all of us and it's this, from the the day your born your life goes basically wrong as it's shaped and directed by the external and parents etc and etc, at a certain age you will see the chances to put your life back to it's intended ''perfect'' condition and state this is every persons ultimate purpose and ascend to a unified and united universal state. By the absolutely ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING exist apart from gods.

    • @johnhouse9983
      @johnhouse9983 Před 5 lety

      You still don't get it do ya, ( this is gunna sound like stating the obvious but) and bare in mind 'obvious and stating are just non existing words, ...but, ever noticed how it's always other people that die and never you, and how long has that been going on, pre history , modern history , two world wars, all those millions and millions of people , dead, we just don't die, christ knows i've unintentionally tried only to find my self back in the waking nightmare of this supposed life still on the cusp of being just ever so slightly asleep unable to escape the crushing sadder than sad truth of our fate, it's not immortality , it's worse. Essentially it's a state of ''still life''. Truth's a fuckin pig huh.

    • @Dasein2005
      @Dasein2005 Před 5 lety

      You need a psychiatrist pal.

    • @johnhouse9983
      @johnhouse9983 Před 5 lety

      if you seriously think any person on this planet is qualified to comment on our sanity you're lost mate.

  • @meeklynobody3230
    @meeklynobody3230 Před 4 lety +1

    00:38

  • @shamanicrevolution2204

    Lecturer: Aristotle invented logic
    Socrates: Am I a joke you you?

    • @PhiloofAlexandria
      @PhiloofAlexandria  Před 3 lety +5

      Socrates used arguments, but never developed a logical system. Aristotle himself says that, in the field of logic before him, “there was nothing at all.” I think that’s right.

    • @shamanicrevolution2204
      @shamanicrevolution2204 Před 3 lety

      @@PhiloofAlexandria so you never heard of the socratic method?

    • @shamanicrevolution2204
      @shamanicrevolution2204 Před 3 lety

      @@sriveltenskriev6271 thankyou yes I realise this now.

    • @shamanicrevolution2204
      @shamanicrevolution2204 Před 3 lety

      @Legacy was waiting for this comment.

    • @meowwwww6350
      @meowwwww6350 Před 3 lety

      @@PhiloofAlexandria savage mr bonevac

  • @KittyBoyPurr
    @KittyBoyPurr Před rokem

    Analytic philosophy:
    A=A
    A soul is a soul
    Donald Trump is Donald Trump

  • @samuellyngdoh5317
    @samuellyngdoh5317 Před 2 lety

    In America the Lecturer sounds enthusiastic while the students sound deadpan, but are not really they are just students tryying to learn that doesnt mean theyre bored. It is the professors job to be inspiring and the students job to learn. In didia its the other way around. THe professors are harsh rude and droll and the students have to be enthusiastic out of nowhere. This is why India is so backward

  • @jeremymiller4189
    @jeremymiller4189 Před 7 lety

    I thought the analytical and continental philosophy divide occurred in the enlightenment. Analytical philosophy was centered around empiricism and continental philosophy was centered around rationalism.

    • @NickJovic23
      @NickJovic23 Před 6 lety +3

      jeremy miller Not really, in enlightenment it was kind of mixed but yeah, British philosophers tended to be more empirical and other europeans tended to be more rationalists, but there is not that big draw in the sand like with analytic and continental in 20th century. Analytic vs continental was and still is kind of like a war (just chack youtube, every other video is like "this guy destroys postmodernism"). You have empiricists that tend to have some grain of rationalism in them and vice versa (Hume and Berkeley not really being HC empiricists, and Leibniz being rationalist who has a lot of empiricist traits). Analytic/continental draw started to occure at the beginning of 20th centry where you have one school of thought that focuses on math, science and clarity and on the other hand you get idealists but also people like Nietzsche or Marx whos writings were interpreted and implemented badly in first half of 20th century. You had crazy people like Gentile who fused Hegel and Berkeley to prove and legitamize fascism, kind of the reason why people like Karnap didin't like idealists or other continental philosophers. In their mind you here try to find objective hard truth and there is a postmodernist trying to relativise everything and say how "there is no truth"... Two very different methods and opposing sides. Anyways, great lecture (sorry if my grammar is off, not a native speaker)

  • @sincerecartertm
    @sincerecartertm Před 4 lety +1

    eeeee

  • @firstal3799
    @firstal3799 Před 2 lety

    He lost me when he tried to correct students pronunciation and he reason he gave! Gosh. I would have loved him telling me this!

  • @RekzaFS
    @RekzaFS Před 4 lety +1

    Too bad the sound quality is terrible, get a lav mic...

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    @frostedalmond Před rokem +2

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