Men of Ideas
Season 1, Episode 7: The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
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In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Bernard Williams of Cambridge University discuss linguistic philosophy—an offshoot of logical positivism—which argues that sentences can have no meaning beyond that which humans give them because language is a human invention.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
An Introduction to Philosophy
Episode 2
Marxist Philosophy
Episode 3
Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
Episode 4
Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
Episode 5
The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
Episode 6
Logical Positivism and its Legacy
Episode 7
The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
Episode 8
Moral Philosophy
Episode 9
The Ideas of Quine
Episode 10
The Philosophy of Language
Episode 11
The Ideas of Chomsky
Episode 12
The Philosophy of Science
Episode 13
Philosophy and Politics
Episode 14
Philosophy and Literature
Episode 15
Philosophy: The Social Context