Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity / Hilary Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Hilary, Author.

Contributor:

De Caro, Mario, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naturalism.

Normativity (Ethics).

Perception (Philosophy).

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Hilary Putnam’s writings have shaped fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mathematics to the philosophy of mind. This volume reflects his latest thinking on how to articulate a theory of naturalism which acknowledges that normative phenomena form an ineluctable part of human experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Putnam’s Philosophy and Metaphilosophy

1. Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity

2. On Bernard Williams’s “Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline”

3. What Evolutionary Theory Doesn’t Tell Us about Ethics

4. Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity

5. Richard Boyd on Scientific Realism

6. Hans Reichenbach: Realist and Verificationist

7. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Does Dummett Have a Way Through?

8. When “Evidence Transcendence” Is Not Malign

9. Sensation and Apperception

10. Perception without Sense Data

11. “Naive Realism” and Qualia

12. The Development of Externalist Semantics

13. Sixty- Five Years of Philosophy: A Participant’s Thoughts and Experiences

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-96911-1

OCLC:

971253496