An analytic tradition is a form of philosophy that became powerful in the west at the beginning of the 20th century. Throughout the [course_title], you’ll understand the purposes of a unified theory, including the innovations of Frege, the construction and abandonment of a formal language for science, and the reformation of philosophy. You’ll also come to know the efforts applied to protect philosophy from political co-optation by the European logical empiricists.
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Course Credit: Open Culture
Course Curriculum
Module: 01 | |||
Philosophy in One Lecture | 00:49:00 | ||
Analytic Philosophy: Frege | 00:51:00 | ||
Frege on Sense and Reference | 00:50:00 | ||
Russell on Denoting | 00:50:00 | ||
Russell on Denoting, Part 2 | 00:51:00 | ||
Russell’s Logical Atomism | 00:29:00 | ||
Russell on Belief and Ontology | 00:50:00 | ||
Module: 02 | |||
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus | 00:50:00 | ||
Logical Empiricism: Criteria and Protocol Sentences | 00:49:00 | ||
Ayer’s Criteria of Verification | 00:47:00 | ||
Gilbert Ryle, Systematically Misleading Expressions | 00:47:00 | ||
Carnap and Ryle on Dispositions | 00:47:00 | ||
Quine’s Logistical Approach to Ontology | 00:49:00 | ||
Quine on What There Is | 00:48:00 | ||
Module: 03 | |||
Quine’s Ontology | 00:48:00 | ||
Quine on Analyticity and Other Dogmas | 00:49:00 | ||
Quine on Carnap on Logical Truth | 00:47:00 | ||
Quine on Truth by Convention | 00:46:00 | ||
Carnap on Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology | 00:52:00 | ||
Sellars on Foundationalism | 00:47:00 | ||
Sellars on the Logic of Looks | 00:50:00 | ||
Module: 04 | |||
Sellars on the Inconsistent Triad | 00:45:00 | ||
Sellars and the Framework of Thoughts | 00:46:00 | ||
Quine on Modality | 00:45:00 | ||
Quine on Quantifying In | 00:47:00 | ||
Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation | 00:47:00 | ||
Kripke on the Descriptive Theory of Names | 00:49:00 | ||
Kripke and the Causal Picture of Names | 00:49:00 | ||
Module: 05 | |||
Kripke on Rigid Designators | 00:50:00 | ||
Gareth Evans on the Causal Theory | 00:49:00 | ||
Kripke on Essential Properties | 00:46:00 | ||
Kripke on the Wittgensteinian Paradox | 00:45:00 | ||
Kripke and the Skeptical Solution | 00:45:00 | ||
Kripke on Wittgenstein on Forms of Life | 00:46:00 | ||
Blackburn on the Skeptical Solution | 00:47:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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