John Searle on Ludwig Wittgenstein: Section 3

I'm not sure why there is a skip at 5:30, I'll have to check the source video...

Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus, to his posthumously published, Philosophical Investigations.

Section 1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qrmPq8pzG9Q

Section 2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kl-iLxleHaw

Section 3:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cjZBNDW7DmQ

Section 4:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lGfHQzOzp9s

Section 5:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p4q0ntDIQBw

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ludwig
• Wittgenstein
• Bryan
• Magee
• John
• Searle
• Philosophy
• Language
• Logic
• Logical
• Positivism
• Tractatus
• Investigations

[InfectedDaemon]

Interesting... the video series started out with 16 thousand plus view (when I posted), and on the third video of the series, less then a third of the viewers remain... Sorry guys, philosophy does not have gunflinging and bullet spraying to keep your attention...

[EUROBAS]

Language is a game. let's play !

[TheHumannBee]

wait, question: if i had never experienced language (say i was shut off from society for my entire life) and I saw a flower that was red and yellow would I be able to tell that it consisted of two colors? wouldn't I need some sort of private language to make the distinction between the two colors (say, this one is "this" and the other is "that")? Further, would i be able to make some sort of judgment about the character of the colors that would allow me to see them as separate, without language?

[HumanActivitySystem]

@cikcikosman I wish Christopher Hitchens and Wittgenstein had had a debate on God. Hitchens, the consummate wordsmith, may have crapped his pants in "flustration."

[HumanActivitySystem]

@InfectedDaemon I think a lot of the people who left did so because they were actually looking for videos on ludes, wigs, wit, steins, and gen. Y

[HumanActivitySystem]

@Maartenn100 And he would readily admit that - but how the hell else could he describe them - that's his whole point!

[cikcikosman]

"It is ridicilous that we should take religious utterances as second rate scientific utterences". I love that.

[24foxstar]

@philosophyteacher

Bang on!

[Maartenn100]

Wittgenstein himself uses words to talk about 'languagegames'.

He is contradicting himelf by using words and language.

[MadOldMan]

Wow it's amazing to see Searle talk about the private language argument. Searle's chinese room thought experiment is quite brilliant.

[CrimsonToast]

What a sweaty man.

He's excited.