Tag: Wittgenstein

#94: Moore’s Paradox, Belief, and Mental State

Contemplation of the conceptual differences between belief and knowledge through the aphorism: “people believe what they want to believe”; through contemplation of Moore’s Paradox; and through contemplation of the concept of a mental state of belief. Contemplation of how it is possible to voluntarily, knowingly, and intentionally have false beliefs and of how it is epistemically possible to use such false beliefs to achieve knowledge.

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#93: Moore’s Paradox

Contemplation of the conceptual differences between belief and knowledge through the aphorism: “people believe what they want to believe” and through contemplation of Moore’s Paradox. Contemplation of how it is possible to voluntarily, knowingly, and intentionally have false beliefs and of how it is epistemically possible to use such false beliefs to achieve knowledge.

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#92: Belief and Knowledge: Part II

Contemplation of the conceptual differences between belief and knowledge through the aphorism: “people believe what they want to believe”. Contemplation of how it is possible to voluntarily, knowingly, and intentionally have false beliefs and of how it is epistemically possible to use such false beliefs to achieve knowledge.

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#91: Belief and Knowledge: Part I

Contemplation of the conceptual differences between belief and knowledge through the aphorism: “people believe what they want to believe”. Contemplation of how it is possible to voluntarily, knowingly, and intentionally have false beliefs and of how it is epistemically possible to use such false beliefs to achieve knowledge.

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#73: Meaning, Sense Experience, Theory, and Social Constructs

Contemplates further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language as exhibited in popular culture by the use of the wordgame “social construct”. Tries to contemplate for workers and from the perspective of the working class how wordgames become techniques to hide the reality of the use and usefulness of words as a means for aesthetics at best or as power as an end in itself at worse.

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#43: The Duck-Rabbit

What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.

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#42: Wittgenstein’s Beetle

What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? If the meaning of words is their use, how is a philosophy of language even possible? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.

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#41: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part II

What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.

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#40: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part I

What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.

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#6: Clean-up

Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?

Basics of philosophy. Definitions and implications of truth in empiricism, materialism to idealism, rationalism, pragmatism, and philosophy of language and the use of fiction and imagination as a means for truth. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and theology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology.  Both Western and Eastern perspectives will be covered.

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#7: Red Pill/Blue Pill

Truth, Red Pill or Blue Pill, Does It Matter?

Basics of philosophy.  Truth in the Matrix as an example of the nature of rational and irrational choice of truth or illusion from the perspective of existentialism, 20th Century pragmatism, and philosophy of language.  Vote for truth or illusion as the best choice for happiness in life. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and theology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology.  Both Western and Eastern perspectives will be covered.

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