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Robinson's Podcast63 - Thomas Ryckman & Mark Wilson: The State of Analytic PhilosophyThomas Ryckman is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, where he works on the philosophy of physics. Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he works at the intersection of the philosophy of math and physics on the one side and metaphysics and the philosophy of language on the other. Tom, Mark, and Robinson discuss the present state of analytic philosophy, the dominant tradition in the United States, including some potential obstacles and important ideas of the twentieth century that have been forgotten.
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2023-03-161h 39
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)Thomas Ryckman on Albert EinsteinThomas Ryckman is a professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Columbia in 1986 and taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern, and UC-Berkeley, before ultimately coming to Stanford. His main area of research is the philosophy of science, specifically the philosophy of physics. He has published […]2015-10-2800 min
MCMP – History of PhilosophyWhat Carnap might have learned from WeylThomas Ryckman (Stanford) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Influences on the Aufbau" (1-3 July, 2013) titled "What Carnap might have learned from Weyl". Abstract: There are easily discernible traces of the influence of Hermann Weyl in the writings of Carnap in the early to mid- 1920s. It is somewhat more difficult to find any palpable influence of Weyl in the Aufbau. On the other hand, Weyl’s 1926 Philosophie der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften is the sole work singled out in Aufbau's Bibliography as “especially suitable for study of problems connected with construction theory” in both the “logical” and the “epistemological” categories. I...2013-10-2047 min