Dr. Gillian Russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, as well as a visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She works mostly in the philosophy of language and logic, and is the author of Barriers to Entailment: Hume’s Law and other Limits on Logical Consequence and Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction. She lives in the New South Wales countryside along with her partner, a lot of kangaroos, and a small dog named Mal.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
00:47 Exploring Philosophy in Kuwait
03:27 Virtual Reality and Logic
06:46 Journey into Philosophy
09:48 The Intersection of Logic and Epistemology
12:43 The Path to a Philosophy Career
15:51 Experiences with David Lewis
18:45 Martial Arts and Epistemic Vices
21:48 Ethics in Martial Arts
23:58 Understanding Logic
26:42 Advanced Logic and Teaching
29:43 Philosophy of Language and Logic
39:17 Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy, Language, and Mathematics
42:16 Understanding Context in Philosophy of Language
47:03 The Nature of Logical Consequence
52:33 Challenging the Laws of Logic
59:12 The Debate on Logical Pluralism vs. Monism
01:02:12 Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and Beyond
01:17:18 The Ambitious Project of Uniting Philosophical Disciplines
Links from the show:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/gillian-kay-russell
Her website: https://gillianrussell.net/
Barriers to Entailment: https://a.co/d/cu8XKk0
Dr. Jared Oliphint is the founder of Selling Plato (www.sellingplato.com), received his PhD in philosophy, and teaches philosophy at the college level. His published work has focused on metaphysics, philosophy of language, conceptual engineering, social ontology, and
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