Robinson's Podcast
Robinson's Podcast
Robinson Erhardt
63 - Thomas Ryckman & Mark Wilson: The State of Analytic Philosophy
1 hour 39 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2023 at 2:30 pm.
Introduction
Tom and Mark’s Friendship
Problems with Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
Hertz and a Metaphysical Notion of Force
Thoughts on Wittgenstein
Mark and the French Structuralists
The Single Greatest Problem Confronting Analytic Philosophy Today
Some Thoughts on Grounding
Mach, Duhem, Hertz, and Analytic Philosophy
A Historical Overemphasis on Logic
Final Thoughts on the Current State of Academic Philosophy
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Thomas Ryckman is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, where he works on the philosophy of physics. Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he works at the intersection of the philosophy of math and physics on the one side and metaphysics and the philosophy of language on the other. Tom, Mark, and Robinson discuss the present state of analytic philosophy, the dominant tradition in the United States, including some potential obstacles and important ideas of the twentieth century that have been forgotten.
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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.