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Nick Enfield

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

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The Return of Idealism: Russell vs Hegel

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Common sense leads philosophy astray

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Derrida and the trouble with metaphysics

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Analytic philosophy has a language problem

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Freedom from nature: the ultimate enslavement

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Seeing is not perceiving

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Wittgenstein was a metaphysician

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There is no escaping metaphysics

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Most truths cannot be expressed in language

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21st century metaphysics: Leaving Fantasy Behind

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