Philosophical Papers Volume 3 Realism And Reason

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521313945

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Philosophical Papers: Volume 3, Realism and Reason by Hilary Putnam Pdf

This is the third volume of Hilary Putnam's philosophical papers, published in paperback for the first time. The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist' position developed in his earlier work. While not renouncing those views, Professor Putnam has continued to explore their epistemological consequences and conceptual history. He now, crucially, sees theories of truth and of meaning that derive from a firm notion of reference as inadequate.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:955789088

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Philosophical Papers by Hilary Putnam Pdf

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521297761

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Reason, Truth and History by Hilary Putnam Pdf

'This is a timely book, with penetrating discussion of issues very much in the forefront of the contemporary philosophy. Despite the prominence of negative arguments it contains much to contribute positively to our understanding of what is needed for a conception of rationality and objectivity that covers ethics and value theory generally as well as physics.'

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674749456

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Realism with a Human Face by Hilary Putnam Pdf

One of America's great philosophers says the time has come to reform philosophy. Putnam 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. His goal is to embed philosophy in social life.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674956079

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Words and Life by Hilary Putnam Pdf

Putnam offers a sweeping account of the sources of several central problems of philosophy. A unifying theme of the volume is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress.

Author : Jody Azzouni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134593422

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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science by Jody Azzouni Pdf

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth? In this book, Jody Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.

Author : James Conant,Urszula M. Zeglen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134520206

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Hilary Putnam by James Conant,Urszula M. Zeglen Pdf

One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic. This specially commissioned collection discusses his contribution to the realist and pragmatist debate. Hilary Putnam comments on the issues raised in each article, making it invaluable for any scholar of his work.

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Open Court Publishing Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0812690435

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The Many Faces of Realism by Hilary Putnam Pdf

"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided by the analysis of a very simple example of what I call 'contextual relativity'. The position I defend holds that truth depends on conceptual scheme and it is nonetheless 'real truth'. "In my third lecture I turn to the Kantian antecedents of this view, explaining what I think should be retained of the Kantian idea of autonomy as the central theme of morality, and extracting from Kant's work a 'moral image of the world' that connects the ideals of equality and intellectual liberty. In this lecture I defend the idea that moral images are an indispensible part of our moral and cultural heritage. "In the final lecture I defend the idea of moral objectivity. I compare our epistemological positions in ethics, history, analysis of human character, and science, and I argue that in no area can we hope for a 'foundation' which is more ultimate than the beliefs that actually, at a given time, function as foundational in the area, the beliefs concerning which one has to say 'this is where my spade is turned'. In ethics such beliefs are represented in moral images of the world."

Author : Silvia G. Dapía
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317394839

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Jorge Luis Borges, Post-Analytic Philosophy, and Representation by Silvia G. Dapía Pdf

Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of literature and actually serve as precursors to the various strains of post-analytic philosophy that later developed in the United States. The volume discusses American post-analytic philosophers Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson, Nelson Goodman, and Arthur Danto, as well as a wide-ranging set of philosophical ideas including reflections on Keynes, Hayek, Schopenhauer and many others . Chapters offer detailed readings of Borges’ texts extending from 1939 to 1983, locating where he thematizes issues of representation, and pursuing the logic of Borges’s text toward its philosophical implications without neglecting their literary value. The book argues that Borges’ exploration of the relationship between representation and reality places him unmistakably in the position of a precursor to the post-analytic philosophers. Illuminating the role that language plays in the creation of reality and representation, this volume makes significant contributions not only to Borges scholarship but also post-structuralism, post-analytic studies of language, semiotics, comparative literature, and Latin American literature.

Author : Chhanda Gupta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742513874

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Realism Versus Realism by Chhanda Gupta Pdf

Realism versus Realism defends the metaphysics of 'Internal Realism, ' a view authored by Hilary Putnam, and seeks to build on its basis an immanent realistic position to resolve two conflicts: the conflict between realism and some forms of anti-realism, especially relativism which involves constructivism and subjectivism; and also between two forms of realism itself, namely transcendent and immanent. Contra transcendent realism, author Chhanda Gupta rejects the absolute view of realities that (a) transcend our concept forming powers, (b) transcend our cognitive abilities, and (c) are said to have features by themselves, not as things appear to us. Contra relativism of the anti-realist stripe, Gupta defends conceptual relativity without letting it drift towards constructivism and subjectivism. This general theory of realism minus absolutism, and relativism minus subjectivism and constructivism, may be seen to have a relevance for our moral and social image of the world by showing how pluralism can avoid the ills of absolutism without ushering in intellectual and moral anarchy.

Author : John Shand
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773585669

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Central Works of Philosophy, Volume 5 by John Shand Pdf

Ranging over 2,500 years of philosophical writing, this five-volume collection of essays is an unrivalled companion to the study and reading of philosophy. Central Works of Philosophy provides both an overview of particular works and clear and authoritative expositions of their central ideas, giving readers the resources and confidence to read the works themselves. These books offer remarkable insights into the ideas out of which our present ways of thinking emerged and without which they cannot fully be understood.

Author : John Haldane,Crispin Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Objectivity
ISBN : 9780195078787

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Reality, Representation, and Projection by John Haldane,Crispin Wright Pdf

This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistemology. The contributors are some of the leading authors in these fields and include discussions of philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Aquinas to Wittgenstein.

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192644305

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Perception: First Form of Mind by Tyler Burge Pdf

In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of mental representational: perception. Focusing on the functions and capacities of perceptual states, Burge accounts for their representational content and structure, and develops a formal semantics for them. The discussion explains the role of iconic format in the structure. It also situates the accounts of content, structure, and semantics within scientific explanations of perceptual-state formation, emphasizing formation of perceptual categorization. In the book's second half, Burge discusses what a perceptual system is. Exploration of relations between perception and other primitive capacities-conation, attention, memory, anticipation, affect, learning, and imagining-helps distinguish perceiving, with its associated capacities, from thinking, with its associated capacities. Drawing mainly on vision science, not introspection, Perception: First Form of Mind is a rigorous, agenda-setting work in philosophy of perception and philosophy of science.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0521556864

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Truth and Progress by Richard Rorty Pdf

The volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in the volume engage with the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers including Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Juergen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle, and Charles Taylor. The collection also touches on problems in contemporary feminism raised by Annette Baier, Marilyn Frye, and Catherine MacKinnon, and considers issues connected with human rights and cultural differences.

Author : Selskabet for Filosofi og Psykologi
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8772890142

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Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol. 23 by Selskabet for Filosofi og Psykologi Pdf