Language and the World | Corine Besson, Nancy Cartwright, Hilary Lawson - a podcast by IAI

We effortlessly use language to describe the world. Yet the puzzle of how language achieves this has stumped philosophers for a century. Are we simply missing the right theory? Or is something more profound at stake if language does not in fact provide descriptions of the world at all.
2017 Lebowitz Prize-winning philosopher Nancy Cartwright, Closure theorist Hilary Lawson and Director of the Centre for Logic and Language Corine Besson
Music: Apache Force by Little Glass Men available under an Attribution Creative Commons License

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