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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