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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 7 The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
8.50 48 minutes 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.
