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A Terribly Serious Adventure Podcast

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The History of Philosophy in the 20th Century

In 1945, Gilbert Ryle becomes a Wayne Fleet Professor of Metaphysics. And by the way, the world war ends that year as well. For those reasons, in ways that I try to say we're also significant for philosophy, the ramified, the kind of philosophy that was done. But you asked me to say something about the ideas that are emerging at that time. If you want a simple phrase to capture what's going on, perhaps the standard, historical expression we use for it is the linguistic turn. This is something that starts a little bit earlier than the period I write about,. probably about the 1870s and in the work of a German philosopher called Gottlop Fr

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