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Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson: An Informal Conversation
Informal discussion between two giants of the scientific community – Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson at Hayden Planetarium from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
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Slavoj Žižek On Buddhism and Capitalism
Slavoj Žižek. The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capitalism Slavoj Žižek offers his opinions as to why Buddhism appeals to CEOs and entrepreneurs around the world as a guiding philosophy in their life and in the market. Using market dynamics and philosophical constructs, Slavoj Žižek attempts to explain the ontological reasoning and appeal […]
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Books
Slavoj Žižek – God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Interview with Jack Miller)
Slovenian political theorist and philosopher Slavoj Žižek is interviewed by Jack Miller to discuss his book “God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse.”
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Slavoj Žižek Interviewed by Paul Holdengräber – Voyeurism and Digital Identity
Slavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber “Voyeurism and digital identity” – International Authors’ Stage
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Slavoj Žižek– The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason
If you haven’t acquainted yourself with the manic, hilarious and scattered yet genius ramblings of Slavoj Žižek, while now is your time to familiarize yourself with one of the world’s foremost thinkers on philosophy, political theory, and contemporary politics and pop culture. Slovenian-born and self-declared “Stalinist“-Marxist, Slavoj Žižek‘s perspective on world affairs is a voice […]
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News
Political Theory: What is Anarchism? Barry Pateman Interviews Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky On Anarchism – Interviewed by Barry Pateman
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Semantics.
“The study of meaning in natural language. ‘Meaning’ is an elusive concept which modern linguists tackle by dispersing into other fundamental ideas such as Implicature, Meaning-NN, Sense and Reference, Value. See Theories of Meaning, Lexical Semantics, Structural Semantics, Truth Conditional.” J. Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge, 1977).
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Picture Theory of Meaning.
“Theory which treats declarative sentences (as against commands and so on) as pictures of facts (if true) or possible facts (otherwise). A notable example of the theory is Tractatus (1921) by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Each element in the sentence (bar certain connectives and so on) stands for something, be it an object or a quality or […]
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth.
“The strictest form of the theory defines truth as a structural correspondence between what is true (a belief, judgement, proposition, sentence, and so on) and what makes it true (an event, fact, state of affairs, and so on). Because of the difficulties in defining such a relation (difficulties also facing the Picture Theory of Meaning), […]
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Coherence Theory of Truth.
“A theory maintaining that a proposition will be true if it forms part of a system of mutually coherent propositions which is wider than any rival system. The coherence or consistency in question must of course be definable independently of truth, which may be difficult. The theory is favored especially by Objective Idealism, which rejects […]
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