Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson&Rudolf Carnap (Part Two) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer
from 2018-06-04T13:30:41
Finishing Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974) and moving on to Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" (1950).
Carnap claims that we talk about mathematical objects or subatomic particles or whatever, we're not really (contra Quine) making metaphysical claims. Ontological questions like "Are there really numbers?" are just pretentious nonsense. With guest Dusty Dallman.
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