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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 An Introduction to Philosophy
- Season 1 Marxist Philosophy
- Season 1 Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
- Season 1 Martin Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
- Season 1 The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein
- Season 1 Logical Positivism and its Legacy
- Season 1 The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
- Season 1 Moral Philosophy
- Season 1 The Ideas of Quine
- Season 1 The Philosophy of Language
- Season 1 The Ideas of Chomsky
- Season 1 The Philosophy of Science
- Season 1 Philosophy and Politics
- Season 1 Philosophy and Literature
- Season 1 Philosophy: The Social Context
Men of Ideas - Season 1 Episode 10 The Philosophy of Language
8.50 48 minutes World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Berkeley philosopher of language John Searle discuss the question: "How does language relate to thought and to reality?" Searle explores the use of language to clarify experience as fundamental to the acquisition of knowledge. He then describes the various uses of language in the philosophies of Plato, Descartes, Frege, Mills, and others.
