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The Vienna Circle
The Turning Point in Philosophy
This lecture covers the development of philosophy from the beginning of the 20th century to the early 1950s. The focus is on the philosophy of the members of the “Vienna Circle”, but the lecture will also discuss philosophers that influenced their thinking (e.g. Gottlob Frege, Alfred Tarski, the Berlin Circle, Kurt Gödel and Ludwig Wittgenstein), as well as philosophers that were influenced by the Vienna Circle (e.g. Karl Popper, Eino Kaila, Arne Naess, Willard Van Orman Quine).
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The Ideal Language Tradition
From Jena to Harvard
In this seminar (taught at Tartu University, Spring 2006) we look at the history of modern analytic philosophy. This tradition is rooted in the work of Gottlob Frege and was imported to the US with the exodus of the Vienna Circle during World War II. We will follow its course to the "cognitive turn" that it took during the second half of the last century. The seminar is mainly aimed at the full-time resident students in philosophy, also at the students participating in the masters' and doctors' programs.
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What's Truth Got To Do With It?
Popper, Carnap, Tarski and truth.
Course taught in Düsseldorf (2003) together with Stefan Bagusche and Ulrich Wille. The materials are in German. The topic was Tarski's definition of truth and the strange influence it had on the philosophy of Karl Popper and Rudolf Carnap.
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Revision: 2010/09/06 - 11:50
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