Mathematics & the Metaphysicians (Bertrand Russell)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2017年1月23日
A Bertrand Russell essay from LibriVox, read by Landon D. C. Elkind.

Analyzing Language (2): Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

source: Philosophical Overdose      2013年6月20日
Stephen Neale discusses Bertrand Russell's famous theory of descriptions and some of the philosophical issues surrounding it involving the nature of language and thought. The theory was introduced in Russell's article "On Denoting" and has made significant contributions to the philosophy of language, as well as logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. Among other things, it made sense out of how we are able to speak and think about non-existent objects. The epistemology which motivated the theory was based on Russell's conception of sense data and his distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
Russell's On Denoting: http://users.drew.edu/jlenz/br-on-den...
Knowledge by Acquaintance & Knowledge by Description: http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/perce...
Part 1 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe6qX...
Credit goes to Simply Charly: https://www.simplycharly.com

Analyzing Language (1): Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions (by Stephen Neale)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2013年6月20日
Stephen Neale discusses Bertrand Russell's famous theory of descriptions and some of the philosophical issues surrounding it involving the nature of language and thought. The theory was first introduced in Russell's article "On Denoting" and made significant contributions to the philosophy of language, as well as logic, epistemology, and ontology. Among other things, it made sense out of how we are able to speak and think about things which don't exist. The epistemology which motivated the theory was based on Russell's conception of sense data and his distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
Russell's On Denoting: http://users.drew.edu/jlenz/br-on-den...
Knowledge by Acquaintance & Knowledge by Description: http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/perce...
Part 2 can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybaQ...
Credit goes to Simply Charly: https://www.simplycharly.com

Russell's Theory of Descriptions (1-3) by Kane B

source: Kane B    2013年8月11日
This series is a basic introduction to Russell's theory of descriptions. In this video, we begin by considering some puzzles about singular terms.
Re the distinctions listed at 5:44 : If you're at all unclear about any of these, I introduce all three of them here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L4GBn... .
As for my claims regarding on which side of the distinctions (3) and (4) fall, of course there are questionable and have been questioned. It has been held, for example, that identity statements such as "Robert Zimmerman = Bob Dylan" are necessary, not contingent. The very distinction between analytic and synthetic statements has been challenged. Some empiricist philosophers (Mill is the most famous example) have held that even logical truths such as A=A (Robert Zimmerman = Robert Zimmerman) are contingent, a posteriori, synthetic. Etc.
What's clear, though, is that there is some prima facie difference in meaning between (3) and (4), and it's difficult for the commonsense view of singular terms to account for this difference.

Russell's Theory of Descriptions 1 - Some Puzzles A basic introduction to Russell's Theory of Descriptions. 14:40
Russell's Theory of Descriptions 2 - Frege & Meinong 27:30
Russell's Theory of Descriptions 3 28:40

Bertrand Russell & Wittgenstein on Belief & Relations (by Fraser MacBride)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年5月16日
After a brief discussion of the nature of philosophy and the origins of analytic philosophy, Fraser MacBride discusses Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the nature of relations and the structure of judgment or belief, how our thought relates to external objects in the world. Among the topics discussed include metaphilosophy and the history of analytic philosophy, F. H. Bradley's infamous regress argument against the reality of relations, Russell's correspondence theory of truth and different accounts of judgment including his famous multiple relation theory.
"The question of relations is one of the most important that arise in philosophy, as most other issues turn on it: monism and pluralism; the question of whether anything is wholly true except the whole of truth, or wholly real except the whole of reality; idealism and realism, in some of their forms; perhaps the very existence of philosophy as a subject distinct from science and possessing a method of its own.” Bertrand Russell

Wesley Cecil: Bertrand Russell's Life and Philosophy

source: Wes Cecil     2012年8月29日
A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. on the life and Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
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