Timothy Williamson | The Role of Philosophy
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Philosopher Timothy Williamson explains our instruments of understanding, the value of analytic philosophy, and why we debate.
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Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford and a world renowned philosopher of language and logic. He has written extensively on what philosophy is, and how it should be done.
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“I can’t say that when I’m solving personal problems I list some premises and then deduce the conclusion of what I should do” -T. Williamson. That touched me to the core.
One of the most brilliant philosophers of our time.
Why?
This is one of my greatest impacts from studying stoicism: *Do* *what* *makes* *you* *happy* - *Life* *is* *too* *short* *to* *not* *enjoy* *it* =)
That's not stoicism; that's hedonism.
He's a great thinker...!, we need these minds to solve our problems...
What a legend
BRILLIANT!
The poor audio quality seriously undermined the somewhat choppy presentation in this video. Thorough preparation of all technical equipment is needed if one wishes to present a credible presentation - especially when offering serious content such as in this video.
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Everything was going well until the interviewer asked the dumbest question possible, suggesing that debate could eventually drive away women and members of minoriy ethnicities from philosophy. I felt the cringe in Williamson's face.
YOUR BOOK SUCKS
If we shouldn't have taken the 'linguistic/conceptual turn' because language 'refers to the world', what does this 'referring' mean precisely? You have missed the entire field of reasons why people 'took that turn' and I wasted money on it.
He spends multiple chapters going over the reasons for it and saying why they were mistaken