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Category: Philosophy of Language
#103: Practical Philosophy of Language: Sex/Gender Part IV
Building on the prior episodes on the philosophy of language, these episodes give practical examples of the concepts working in practice in the post-modern disputes on the meanings of sex and gender.
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#102: Practical Philosophy of Language: Sex/Gender Part III
Building on the prior episodes on the philosophy of language, these episodes give practical examples of the concepts working in practice in the post-modern disputes on the meanings of sex and gender.
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#101: Practical Philosophy of Language: Sex/Gender Part II
Building on the prior episodes summarizing modern philosophy of language, these episodes give practical examples of the concepts working in practice in the post-modern disputes on the meanings of sex and gender.
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#100: Practical Philosophy of Language: Sex/Gender Part I
Building on the prior episodes summarizing modern philosophy of language, these episodes give practical examples of the concepts working in practice in the post-modern disputes on the meanings of sex and gender.
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#74: Social Constructs
Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of the concept of a “social construct” in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. Specific examples of social constructs acting as delusions to hide reality are the popular disputes over the words “gender” and “cognitive science”. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#73: Meaning, Sense Experience, Theory, and Social Constructs
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language as exhibited in popular culture by the use of the wordgame “social construct”. Tries to contemplate for workers and from the perspective of the working class how wordgames become techniques to hide the reality of the use and usefulness of words as a means for aesthetics at best or as power as an end in itself at worse.
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#72: Rule Following Paradox
Contemplates philosophy of language further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language by contemplating Wittgenstein’s Rule Following Paradox.
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#53: Ontological Proof
Contemplation of the ontological proof within the context of a philosophy of language. Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#52: Assumption of the Contradiction: Scientific Language, Consciousness, Subconscious, and Analytic Philosophy
Contemplation on the unique attributes of scientific language: falsification and the ability to assume contradiction into language as a benefit. This contemplation uses the example of “subconscious thought”, entropy, and dark matter/energy and others. Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#51: The Language of Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#50: The Language of Mathematics, Logic, and Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of mathematics, logic, and science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#49: Philosophy of Language Clean-up Part II
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language and the metaphysics of idealism, rationalism, materialism, empiricism, and solipsism. Argues that existentialist and pragmatic theories of language are the only way to avoid solipsism.
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#48: Philosophy of Language Clean-up Part I
Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language and the metaphysics of idealism, rationalism, materialism, empiricism, and solipsism. Argues that existentialist and pragmatic theories of language are the only way to avoid solipsism.
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#47: Quine’s Fabric
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#46: Pragmatic Theory of Language
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with a pragmatic theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#45: Existence Precedes Essence
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with an existentialist theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#44: Existentialist Theory of Language
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. This podcast deals with an existentialist theory of language and emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#43: The Duck-Rabbit
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#42: Wittgenstein’s Beetle
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? If the meaning of words is their use, how is a philosophy of language even possible? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#41: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part II
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#40: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part I
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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