Hilary Putnam

Informationen zum Autor Yemima Ben-Menahem is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext The essays in this volume discuss Putnam's major philosophical contributions. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume discuss Putnam's major philosophical contributions to the theory of meaning! the philosophy of mind! the philosophy of science and mathematics! and moral theory. The volume also constitutes a critical introduction to a number of central issues in contemporary philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Yemima Ben-Menahem; 2. Putnam's 'the meaning of meaning': externalism in historical context Juliet Floyd; 3. The face of perception Charles Travis; 4. Realism, beyond miracles Axel Mueller and Arthur Fine; 5. Putnam on scepticism Yemima Ben-Menahem; 6. The tale of quantum logic Tim Maudlin; 7. Another philosopher looks at quantum mechanics Nancy Cartwright; 8. Structural realism and contextual individualism John Stachel; 9. The rise and fall of machine functionalism Oron Shagrir; 10. The pragmatic turn: the entanglement of fact and value Richard J. Bernstein.

Product details

• Authors: Yemima (Hebrew University of Jerusale Ben-Menahem, Yemina Ben-Menahem
• Assisted by: Yemima Ben-Menahem (Editor), Yemina Ben-Menahem (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780521813112
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81311-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus; Contemporary Philosophy in Foc; Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works