Ep 16: Descriptivist Theory of Names - The Howie Mandel Effect
An episode of the You've Got It All Wrong podcast, hosted by Thought Experiment Media, titled "Ep 16: Descriptivist Theory of Names - The Howie Mandel Effect" was published on September 28, 2015 and runs 48 minutes.
September 28, 2015 ·48m · You've Got It All Wrong
Episode Description
This is our second show about how proper names work (check out episode 10 for part one). It’s an important topic because much of philosophy is built around the concept of assigning truth values to sentences such as “Socrates is mortal.” And we can’t know if that sentence is true or false unless we know what “Socrates” means. In this episode we look at how Bertrand Russell developed his Descriptivist theory of names, and how that theory came to dominate the philosophy of language for much of the 20th century. Along the way we speculate on the outcomes of hypotheti...
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