Carnap against Heidegger: reacting to my old Youtube lectures
I'm continuing my retrospective of my old lectures - the aim of today's video is to provide a fun and approachable introduction to the controversy surrounding Rudolf Carnap's attack on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (while also discussin it's significance for the so-called Analytic/continental divide in 20th century philosophy).
Carnap against Heidegger (original video): • Carnap against Heidegger (Philosophy of La...
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📚 Some literature:
Martin Heidegger (1929). What Is Metaphysics?
Rudolf Carnap (1932). The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language.
Eli Friedlander (1998). Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein: much ado about nothing.
Simon Critchley (2001). Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction.
⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Carnap's aim
2:42 Analytic/continental divide
5:02 Interlude 1 (dramatization)
5:50 Heidegger's aim
8:25 Carnap's view on Heidegger's aim
9:17 Carnap's theory of language (overview)
11:09 Empiricist language (1/2)
11:48 Interlude 2 (memes)
12:15 Carnap against Wittgenstein
13:33 Empiricist language (2/2)
14:38 The end of philosophy
16:07 Carnap against Nietzsche
17:45 Concluding remarks