Philosophy in an Age of Science - Physics, Mathematics and Skepticism

Informationen zum Autor Hilary Putnam was Cogan University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Mario De Caro is Hilary Putnam’s literary executor and Professor of Moral Philosophy at Roma Tre University. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association , a regular visiting professor at Tufts University, and author of five volumes in Italian. David Macarthur is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. With Mario De Caro, he edited Naturalism in Question , Naturalism and Normativity , and Hilary Putnam’s Philosophy in an Age of Science . He also edited Hilary and Ruth Anna Putnam’s Pragmatism as a Way of Life . Klappentext Hilary Putnam has at last paused from philosophizing to collect his papers for publication¿his first volume in almost two decades. Contributing to a broad range of philosophical inquiry, Putnam has been said to represent a ¿history of recent philosophy in outline.¿ In this volume he suggests philosophy¿s possible future, as well. Zusammenfassung Hilary Putnam has at last paused from philosophizing to collect his papers for publication—his first volume in almost two decades. Contributing to a broad range of philosophical inquiry, Putnam has been said to represent a “history of recent philosophy in outline.” In this volume he suggests philosophy’s possible future, as well.

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• Authors: Hilary Putnam, Putnam Hilary
• Assisted by: Mario De Caro (Editor), De Caro Mario (Editor), David Macarthur (Editor), Macarthur David (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2012
• EAN: 9780674050136
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05013-6
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 50 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -