How To Do Philosophy and Why | Timothy Williamson

Philosophy For Our Times

English - February 11, 2020 12:54 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MB - ★★★★ - 249 ratings
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For millennia, humans have looked to philosophy to help them understand the world, but why is it then that so many people find philosophy confusing? Is the confusion perhaps part of the solution?

Philosopher of logic Timothy Williamson outlines how philosophy can help us think more clearly, such as Alan Turing's use of logic to invent the computer, how the principles of logic can be understood as the laws of reality, and the importance of debate in making philosophy more inclusive.

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