Philosophy as dialogue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Putnam, Hilary.

Contributor:

De Caro, Mario.

Macarthur, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Summary:

During his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into his intellectual humility and breadth of interests, as his own thinking evolved in dialogue with contemporaries such as Sellars, Habermas, Rorty, Chomsky, McDowell, Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Cora Diamond, and Cornel West.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors’ Introduction. Hilary Putnam: Dialogical Philosopher

PART I. LANGUAGE AND LOGIC

LANGUAGE, MEANING, AND REFERENCE

1. Wilfrid Sellars: On Meaning and Rules (1974)

2. Gareth Evans: On Reference (1983)

3. Noam Chomsky: Scientism and Explaining Language (1993)

4. Akeel Bilgrami: On Meaning and Belief (1993)

5. Axel Mueller: On Quine and Putnam on Analyticity (2013)

6. Tyler Burge: On Thought and Language (2015)

LOGIC

7. George Boolos: On Logical Truths (1994)

8. Charles Travis: On Mind-Independence and Quantum Logic (2001, 2002)

PART II. REALISM AND ANTIREALISM

CONCEPTUAL RELATIVITY

9. Donald Davidson: On Conceptual Relativism (1987)

10. Jennifer Case: On Conceptual Pluralism and Conceptual Relativity (2001)

INTERNAL REALISM

11. David L. Anderson: On Internal Realism (1993)

12. Richard W. Miller: On Perception and Internal Realism (1993)

13. Simon Blackburn: On Internal Realism (1994)

14. Michael Dummett: On Realism and Idealism (1994)

EMPIRICISM AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

15. Ian Hacking: On Philosophy of Science (1984)

16. Rudolf Carnap (Thomas Ricketts): On Empiricism and Conventionalism (1994)

17. David Albert: On Quantum Mechanics (2013)

PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION

18. Ned Block: On the Qualitative Character of Experience (2013)

19. John McDowell: On Perception (2013)

PART III. PRAGMATISM AND SKEPTICISM

PRAGMATISM

20. Cornel West: On Deweyan and Prophetic Pragmatism (2001)

21. Robert Brandom: On Pragmatism (2002)

22. Ruth Anna Putnam: On Pragmatism (2013)

SKEPTICISM AND RELATIVISM

23. Crispin Wright: On the Brain-in- a- Vat (1994)

24. Joseph Margolis: On Relativism and Pluralism (2006)

PART IV. MORALITY, POLITICS, AND RELIGION

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

25. Martha Nussbaum: On Moral Rules and The Golden Bowl (1983)

26. David Wiggins: On Semantic Externalism (1994)

27. Jürgen Habermas: On Moral Philosophy (2002)

28. David Copp: On Morality and Mathematics (2006)

29. Mark Timmons: On Morality (2006)

PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS AND RELIGION

30. Elizabeth Anscombe and Cora Diamond: On Religion (1997)

31. Richard Rorty: On Political Hope (1998)

32. Franz Rosenzweig: On Religion (2016)

PART V. PUTNAM’S PHILOSOPHICAL FORBEARS

TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION

33. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Juliet Floyd): On the Tractatus (1998)

34. Burton Dreben: On Quine and Wittgenstein (2000)

35. W. V. O. Quine: On Quine’s Radicality (2002)

MAJOR PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCES

36. 12 Philosophers—and Their Influence on Me (2008)

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Other Format:

Print version: Putnam, Hilary Philosophy As Dialogue

ISBN:

9780674287594

0674287592

OCLC:

1343104012