Renewing philosophy / Hilary Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Hilary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Philosophy and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. Covering topics that range from artificial intelligence to natural selection, it identifies the problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.

Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions--a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.

Contents:

Preface The Project of Artificial Intelligence Does Evolution Explain Representation? A Theory of Reference Materialism and Relativism Bernard Williams and the Absolute Conception of the World Irrealism and Deconstruction Wittgenstein on Religious Belief Wittgenstein on Reference and Relativism A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy Notes Index

Notes:

Based on the Gifford lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews in fall, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-225) and index.

ISBN:

0-674-04238-7

OCLC:

923117038