In Conversation with W.V. Quine - The Boolos Panel
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Willard Van Orman Quine, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, has been described as the "greatest living English-speaking philosopher". In this series, he takes part in an in-depth personal interview, and a penetrating analysis of his life's work in six panel discussions with some of today's leading philosophers. In discussions with some of today's leading philosophers. In discussions on his most important theses, Quine defends his views against the major criticisms-past and recent-to bring his position right up-to-date.
The Boolos Panel
The guest panelist in this program is George Boolos, Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in logic, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of language. He has published extensively in these areas and his books include Computability and Logic, co-authored with Richard Jeffrey, The Unprovability of Consistency and The Logic of Provability.
Professor Quine is questioned by the panel in detail about his arguments in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". This leads in turn to a close examination of his stance on meaning in general, and his indeterminacy of translation thesis. Next Quine's skepticism about meaning and his linguistic behaviorism is explored along with his view of the notorious differences between himself and Chomsky.
Quine was best analytical philosopher of post war period
"We speak of... uh... words... of course... of uh... uh....absolute uh..."
You will regret not respecting old age
Thanks!
Clever point around 40:00 - that "meaning is use" precludes synonymy.
Thanks for uploading all of the discussions in this series and all the ones conducted by Bryan Magee. Do you have any videos of the discussions from the Davidson series conducted by Fara?
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Quine was always so serious and intimidating...
American logic
Don't get me wrong, you gotta love Quine, and I realize that, but its almost painful listening to him speak. Its sooo sloooow. By the time he finishes speaking I've forgotten the first half of what he said lol. I wish there were some videos of him from when he was a bit younger.
I felt the same way at the beginning of this video, but after about 15 minutes his noggin starts to warm up and it goes much smoother.
You can't even speed up the video because he talks in bursts, not just general slowness.
I agree. I would like to hear him at his prime.But I'M grateful to god form having this panels! Better than not having them at all!
I'm not sure it would make a big difference. He's a very smart man and one of the most beautiful writers I've ever read. But sometimes this doesn't carry over to speech. Look at Saul Kripke. His speech sounds almost retarded
He’s in his late 80’s here, cut him some slack
"in principle there is no limit to the extent to which computers might be designed to resemble us in behaviour" - one thing I followed and agreed with !
1:39:00 (ish)
Depends upon the "principles," I suppose.
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If possible, could you please enable captions, sometimes (when english is not your native language) is very helpful.
Thank you :-)
Does anyone have the transcription or captions. English is not my native lenguaje and it's hard to follow what Quine is saying. Thanx.
all on one video...nice!
This is a great resource they cover a lot of ground here, but like others that have commented here I'm really struggling to understand his train of thought. Is there a transcript available of what is being said here? It would be much easier to read along with them.
+Harry Talboys Much easier if you've read "Two Dogmas . . ." and "Word and Object"
Yes
I like his nephew Robert more.
One can know what a term "means" without knowing the definition of the term. This contradicts what George Boolos is saying when he says that if one doesn't know the definition of the term "polyglot," one doesn't know what it "means." Many people know that some speak many languages and are not familiar with the term "polyglot."
Who are Quine's the interlocutors?
Who are Quine's interlocutors?
Glaucon, Thrasymachus, and Adeimantus.
Oh! the contiguities of difference...
Not a great speaker, but give the man a break, he was probably already suffering the effects of Althusser Disease at this time.
He might be a genius but he’s a terrible speaker.
W.V.Quine is another of my icons in philosophy: I have read some of his books.
Wuh?
Same
He was one of the greatest logicians and matematicians ever.