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Should we abandon linguistics? | Tim Maudlin and Hilary Lawson go head to head

Post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson and professor of Philosophy at NYU Tim Maudlin battle over the trouble with language. Was the linguistic turn an error and is it now time to return to the common sense notion that language is transparent and all can be said? This excerpt was taken from the debate 'The trouble with language,' which took place at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in May of 2024. Watch the full debate at https://iai.tv/video/the-trouble-with... We have another festival coming up! The HowTheLightGetsIn festival is coming to Hampstead Heath in London on the 21st-22nd of September. Get your tickets now! https://howthelightgetsin.org/festiva... For centuries we imagined that language was transparent. The 20th century changed all that. Philosophy, with the so-called linguistic turn, came to see language as central to our understanding of reality and set out to make it precise. But a hundred years on, the project is widely seen to have run aground. Critics argue that the danger now is that because the problems of language and the world are so intractable, we have imagined they can be ignored. For how can we make sense of widely held metaphysical claims, such as the existence of parallel universes, or that we are all living in a simulation, or everything is consciousness, if we don't understand what our words mean and how, or whether, they describe reality? Should we return to the positivist notion that all general claims about the nature of reality are empty theorising and should be abandoned? Can we find an alternative account of language that will enable us to make sense of such theories? Or was the linguistic turn an error and is it now time to return to the common sense notion that language is transparent and all can be said? #TheTroubleWithLanguage #Linguistics #UnderstandingReality Hilary Lawson is a post-postmodern philosopher and a renowned critic of philosophical realism. He is best known for his work on reflexivity and his theory of Closure, which puts forward a non-realist metaphysics arguing that we close the openness of the world with our thought and language. Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. In his ground-breaking book The Metaphysics Within Physics, Truth and Paradox: Solving the Riddles and Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, Maudlin challenges Einstein's criticisms of Quantum Mechanics as 'spooky action at a distance'. Maudlin is one of the world’s leading philosophical realists. The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today! https://iai.tv/subscribe?utm_source=Y... For debates and talks: https://iai.tv For articles: https://iai.tv/articles For courses: https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses