Reading Putnam

ISBN-13: 9780415530064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str.

Maria Baghramian

Opis

Hilary Putnam is one of the world's leading philosophers. His work has made enormous contributions to a rich variety of philosophical topics and debates. 'Reading Putnam' is an outstanding overview and assessment of his thought by a team of international contributors, and includes replies by Putnam himself.

Spis treści

Introduction: A life in Philosophy, Maria Baghramian  Prologue: From Quantum Mechanics to Ethics and Back Again, Hilary Putnam  Part 1: The Enigma of Realism  1. What of Pragmatism with the World Here?, Richard Boyd  2. Hilary and Me: Tracking down Putnam on the Realism Issue, Michael Devitt  3. Putnam and the Philosophical Appeal to Common Sense, David Macarthur  Part 2: On What There Is  5. Putnam vs. Quine on Revisability and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, Axel Mueller  6. Putnam on Existence and Ontology, Charles Parsons  7. Some Sources of Putnam’s Pluralism, Russell Goodman  8. Physics and Narrative, David Albert  9. Hilary Putnam’s Moral Philosophy, Ruth Anna Putnam  Part 3: Perception  10. Some Remarks on Externalism, Tyler Burge  11. Wittgenstein and Qualia, Ned Block  12. Affording us the World, Charles Travis  13. Concepts in Perceptual Experience: Putnam and Travis, John McDowell  Part 4: An Epilogue  14. On Nietzschean Perfectionism, Stanley Cavell.  Index

O autorze

Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles. His work has been instrumental in furthering research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and mathematics. Maria Baghramian is currently the Head of School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and the editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.