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This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another.

Der Band umfasst Beitrage zur "systematischen Wissensforschung." Zugleich wird eine Erweiterung und Neuausrichtung der klassischen Epistemologie vorgeschlagen. Themenfelder im zweiten der beiden Teilbande sind: Varianten des Skeptizismus; Wechselwirkungen der Wissensformen (begriffliches und nicht-begriffliches Wissen, implizites und explizites Wissen, knowing-how und knowing-that); Wissen der ersten, zweiten und dritten Person; Praktisches Wissen und die Struktur von Handlungen; Wissen und das Problem des Dualismus; Disjunktivismus bezuglich Erfahrung und Wahrnehmung.

The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understanding of questions raised by their work that still are, or ought to be, at the center of contemporary philosophical debate: the form and nature of...

The time has come to reform philosophy, says Hilary Putnam, one of America's great philosophers. He calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once did claim to represent. Putnam's goal is to embed philosophy in social life.

The first part of this book is dedicated to metaphysical questions. Putnam rejects the contemporary metaphysics that insists on describing both the mind and the world from a God's-eye view. In its place he argues for pluralism, for a philosophy that is not a...