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Much Ado About Nothing: Heidegger vs. Carnap and the Continental-Analytic Split
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:07
Publish Date: 2021-12-01 13:10:00
Description: In 1929, a disagreement over the meaning of "nothing" exposed deep divisions in Western philosophy and erupted into a debate over whether philosophy is more art or science. Poet-philosopher Martin Heidegger's lecture about nothing excited students and divided colleagues. But the empiricist Rudolf Carnap thought all this talk of the meaning of nothing, amounted to nothing at all.
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