Pragmatism As a Way of Life - The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey

Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values. Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around, illuminating the factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a pragmatic vision that in Hilary¿s words serves ¿as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.¿

About the author

Hilary Putnam was Cogan University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.Ruth Anna Putnam was Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Wellesley College.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.

Summary

Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values. Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around, illuminating the factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a pragmatic vision that in Hilary’s words serves “as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.”

Product details

• Authors: PUTNAM, Hilary Putnam, Hilary Putnam Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Putnam Hilary, Putnam Ruth Anna
• Assisted by: David Macarthur (Editor), Macarthur David (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780674967502
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96750-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -