Ayer on Frege and Russell: Section 1

Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and their impact Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and their impact on philosophy itself.

Section 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WnkGaLHhy0

Section 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1tzsMKdYQ

Section 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-k_pLM_fQ

Section 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIW4JO_f6Vc

Section 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4cX9HT9TV8

Category:

Education

Tags:

• A.J.
• Ayer
• Bryan
• Magee
• Gottlob
• Frege
• Bertrand
• Russell
• Philosophy
• Language
• Logic
• Logical
• Positivism

[Huesos138]

One of my favourite philosophers that I disagree with. :) Thanks for the upload.

[flame0430]

You're welcome. I find that even if you disagree with the scholar in question, there's nothing quite like hearing from the scholar himself!

[shukefxy]

dear flame0430,

you are my hero!

my excitement and gratitude is beyond language!

[flame0430]

Ha, you are quite welcome!

Enjoy the rest of the videos!

[fc007]

A.J. Ayer = Party animal

[shoppittsburghnow]

This is a great video

[TheSpikeystuff]

great video thanks

[unventdub]

yo Ayer you're mashed mate; pass the spliff.

[HumanActivitySystem]

Can help explain, not the dumb vagary of culture so much, as the dumb vagary of our intellectual class, when judged as a whole. Yes, the basic wanton superficial vagaries of my culture (it's on TV or near one) have been exacerbated by this disconnection from German Philosophers ("German Philosophy" still smells like that Austrian guy to me?) b/c given the technology & lifespans - the people need the water for their roots more then ever, but only Karl Marx & Kim Kardashian are trickled down.

[HumanActivitySystem]

Even when I think the words,"German thought," I get a vague, unspecified whiff of Nazism & this is purely a coat of cultural residue that I'm sensing & not actually anything "Nazi" at all (#2 top google entry for "German thought" is:"German thought car could be driven on Sabbath, Rabbi says. So some people are getting some mileage out of this. It seems painfully obvious to me that this stigma (like associating Thomas Edison with Vietnam)

[HumanActivitySystem]

This is actually a very interesting notion that I'm going to elucidate here, in less then 400 characters, for the sake of posterity, so that Larry and Sergey may someday stumble on it, look at each other, & then look away again. 263 left, shit. This helps me think during the final stages of sleep deprivation.181. Western Culture has cut off its head to spite its net as if this were something Hitler would disapprove of. (googled something, & 1 of top results was, "my cat has a penis on its face."

[HumanActivitySystem]

@CROCEX What about the Germans? In the mind of the above average world citizen, philosophers are still Greek guys in togas, in the process, somehow amazingly managing to skip over a couple millennia. Despite western culture as a whole being thoroughly shaped by German philosophers so completely that, by and large, their influence is able to go unrecognized as anything other then that something in the mirror that's always been there. Modern culture, cut off from its roots, is what loses from this

[CROCEX]

i always found funny, the way that the philosophy in the english speaking world have mocked of the rest. They are so pedantic but without a reason to be

[Waranoa]

Thanks for the upload!

[kitchenaut]

@cirosuperiore

Oh dear. How can logic be part of something that itself depends on a logical framework in order for a priori deductive reasoning to be valid?

Go back to your Baudrillard and Lacan.