On Language and Logic | Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson

Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson discuss why language has come to dominate the field of philosophy, why logic matters, and what the future for the Anglo-American tradition looks like.

Saul Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University. Since the 1960s, Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory.

Timothy Williamson has been the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford since 2000. He was a lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, a fellow and tutor at University College Oxford, and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Williamson has contributed to analytic philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics and epistemology.

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[MontyCantsin]

Kripke's speech is much easier to follow now compared to videos of lectures from almost a decade ago. It's almost as if the years have been rolled back. Anyway, good to see him doing more discussions and talks recently.

[robertthiesen]

I'm not going to lie, when I understood what Kripke was talking about with the difference between metaphysical necessity and epistemological certainty, and other such clarifications in Naming and Necessity, damn that was exciting. Better than most sci-fi for me.

[RenRealism]

Hard to understand what this Tim guy is saying

[CopelandMeister]

I love Kripke but I wish he wouldn't assume such a stereotypical and disparaging view towards so-called continental philosophy.

[johnnowakowski]

All this babble where no one can even understand what they're talking about...

[surfinmuso]

He lost me with the first comment. Not true. The study of language tells us an immense amount about the underlying nature of our reality. I agree more with McKenna-our language dictates our reality in ways that many of us do not even realize.

[ruvstof]

Williamson's speech is gibberish based on mistaken views of what the best linguistic analysts tried to do. See Ayer's metaphilosophy or the aims of logical atomism. Kripke made a genial work, but now only repeats himself.

[randlyce]

tim speaks too much to me that signs he knows nothing saul speaks straight to the point he knows what he's talking about.