Frank Jackson & Graham Priest: The Philosophy of David Lewis | Robinson's Podcast #87
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- Frank Jackson is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. He is best known for the knowledge argument and Mary’s Room-its accompanying thought experiment-but has published widely in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Graham Priest is a Distinguished Professor in the philosophy department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Like Frank, he is one of the most influential philosophers of the past fifty years, and has done important work on a wide range of topics, ranging from the philosophy of mathematics to logic and eastern philosophy. In this episode, Robinson, Frank, and Graham talk about David Lewis and his immense legacy in the philosophical world. They cover his character-Frank and Graham were friends with him for many years-as well as some of his work, ranging from the thesis of modal realism to Humean supervenience and the philosophy of set theory.
David Lewis: plato.stanford.edu/entries/da...
Graham’s Website: grahampriest.net
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00:00 In This Episode…
01:17 Introduction
07:54 David Lewis as a Friend and Philosopher
24:12 Australian Philosophy
28:53 Lewisian Themes
34:30 Modal Realism
52:43 Kripke and Lewis on Possible Worlds
58:07 Making Use of Possible Worlds
01:23:29 Humean Supervenience
01:38:19 Set Theory and Mereology
01:45:19 Final Thoughts
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Its criminal that youre getting amazing guest after amazing guest, yet you get so few views, i hope its better on whatever podcasting platforms you are using.
I also find it pretty baffling but I have no idea what's going on
I think the ceiling for philosophy podcasting is pretty low anyway, you can consider developing an audience by creating educational philosophy video content yourself along with your podcasting, most people don't even know the philosophers you're interviewing or their specialities anyway, which will not invite viewers to come click and watch, but if you're creating content alongside that you can pull in more people by providing with introductory background knowledge to enjoy podcasts like this more.
A Good example of this is Joe Schmid, he had a great channel called "Majesty of Reason" and he developed a decent following by doing this, so do check him out, in fact he might be a good guest for one of your episodes, he is very open about that stuff.
I agree, this is an excellent podcast. I hope that it will find its audience.
as an undergrad in philosophy, i had a professor/mentor who was very interested in the work of graham priest. at the end of one semester he gave the class shirts he had made which had printed on them the words "dialetheia in the flesh".
Amazing guests
Strong agree
I really, really appreciate this podcast - keep up the fantastic work!
An episode on conceptual engineering would be interesting.
Do you have anyone in mind?
I enjoyed Herman Cappelen's 'Fixing Language'. David Plunket and Alexi Burgess have also done some fascinating work on that topic.
Let’s go!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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This was so good-- thank you!
My pleasure!
What an amazing channel!
Thank you so much!
Starts at 8:33
That jacket though! :P
striving to dazzle
Great!
I think Graham Priest is the hottest philosopher🥵
Priest is adorable with that "really believing" stuff. As if anyone cares what philosophers "really believe". You are being paid for producing arguments, save your earnestness for your wives and children.
With all due respect speak for yourself. Maybe you are interested in them producing arguments but I certainly want to know what they really believe! Because if some really smart person who devoted a good bit of time to study something really believes in something I want to know what it is and also why he/she believes it as that helps me understand what to think about a topic. So I think there could be multiple reasons for why we pay philosophers.
@@haidersalam2406 I don't get it. There is no evidence that smart people who think more about truth get closer to truth. It's not how it works. Teachers can teach you about arguments and existing views, smart teachers will know more about what other people said. They are librarians with an attitude.
@@cropframeThere absolutely is evidence that smart people thinking hard get closer to truth. Maybe this isn't clear in philosophy, but it's obvious in other disciplines.
@@10mimu Generics are ambiguous. People who write a lot do not become good writers. People who obsess with questions don't get closer to the answers. Thousands of crazy people come up with lengthy nonsensical proofs every year. "Thinking hard" may be a necessary but definitely not a sufficient condition. Some people who think hard get closer to truth. In other words, talented people under right conditions get closer to truth if they think hard, but talented people get closer to truth under the right conditions even if they think much less hard than people who are less talented .
@@cropframe Right, I'm not saying being smart and thinking hard about whether P is sufficient for knowing whether P. But it does make it more likely that you know whether P.