Philosophy As Dialogue

During his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into his intellectual humility and breadth of interests, as his own thinking evolved in dialogue with contemporaries such as Sellars, Habermas, Rorty, Chomsky, McDowell, Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Cora Diamond, and Cornel West.

About the author

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.

Summary

During his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into his intellectual humility and breadth of interests, as his own thinking evolved in dialogue with contemporaries such as Sellars, Habermas, Rorty, Chomsky, McDowell, Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Cora Diamond, and Cornel West.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Putnam, Putnam Hilary, O. Carter Snead
• 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: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780674281356
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28135-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Popular philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800