On Putnam / Keya Maitra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maitra, Keya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Putnam, Hilary.

Pragmatism.

Physical Description:

98 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Southbank, Victoria, Australia ; [Belmont, Calif.] : Wadsworth, 2003.

Summary:

ON PUTNAM, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay readership and quite often serve as "refreshers" for philosophy instructors.

Contents:

2. On Philosophy of Language: Direct Theory of Reference 10

3. Humanizing Realism: From Metaphysical Realism to Internal Realism 27

4. On Philosophy of Mind: Functionalism and Beyond 48

5. Liberating Realism: From Internal Realism to Natural Realism 60

6. On Philosophy of Mathematics, Physics and Logic 73

7. On Moral and Social Matters 84.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0534584004

OCLC:

51568329