Authors:Professor Hilary Putnam, Hilary Putnam,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: cord, threefold
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $77.50
ISBN-10: 0231102860
ISBN-13: 9780231102865

What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well. Hilary Putnam has approached the divisions between perception and reality and between mind and body with great creativity throughout his career. Now, in The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World, he expounds upon these issues, elucidating both the strengths and weaknesses of current schools of thought. With his characteristic wit and acuity,

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: revivals, routledge, logic, philosophy
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415580927
ISBN-13: 9780415580922

First published in 1971, Professor Putnam’s essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not reference to these abstract entities is really indispensable in logic and whether it is necessary in physical science in general.

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: representation, mind, reality
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1991-08-28
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0262660741
ISBN-13: 9780262660747

Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. Putnam argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge that lie at the heart of the philosophy of mind. Hilary Putnam is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: essays, dichotomy, value, fact, collapse
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674013808
ISBN-13: 9780674013803

If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world’s preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought: the idea that while factual claims can be rationally established or refuted, claims about value are wholly subjective, not capable of being rationally argued for or against. Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the d

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: question, open, pragmatism
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1995-02-27
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 063119343X
ISBN-13: 9780631193432

Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to pragmatism - and confronts the teachings of James, Peirce, Dewey, and Wittgenstein - not solely out of an interest in theoretical questions, but above all to respond to the questions of whether it is possible to find an alternative to corrosive moral skepticism, on the one hand, and to moral authoritarianism on the other.

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: vol, hilary, putnam, papers, philosophical, language, reality, mind
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 1979-04-30
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 0521295513
ISBN-13: 9780521295512

Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry; the second deals with the philosophy of language and mind. Volume one is now issued in a new edition, including an essay on the philosophy of logic first published in 1971.

Author: Hilary Putnam
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: ontology, ethics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0674018516
ISBN-13: 9780674018518

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Hilary Putnam’s central concern is ontology--indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous c