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Home / Podcast Episodes / Ep. 56: More Wittgenstein on Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ep. 56: More Wittgenstein on Language

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Episode for Purchase: Continuing discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, Part I, sections 1-33 and 191-360. With guest Philosophy Bro. On “family resemlances” in concepts, dismissing philosophical puzzles as grammatical mistakes, and the private language argument.

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Category: Podcast Episodes Tags: behaviorism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophy Bro, philosophy of language
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We talk about "family resemblances" in concepts, including the concept "game" as used by Wittgenstein: is there really no theory that can capture all and only instances of games, e.g. do all games have rules? Also, what does Wittgenstein mean by characterizing philosophical problems as mistakes of grammar, and how might that apply to the mind/body problem? Finally, we get to the private language argument, where W. argues that we don't talk about our pains and things by pointing at and naming our inner states. Language is inevitably public, and our language about pains grows out of observable pain behaviors. Does this make Wittgenstein a behaviorist, and so hopelessly antiquated? Probably not.

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Running Time: 1 hr., 53 min. Recorded: April 19, 2012. Participants: Mark, Wes, Dylan, Philosophy Bro

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