Hilary Putnam

Zusammenfassung Hilary Putnam is one of America's important and influential contemporary philosophers. This book offers an overview of Putnam's ideas, his key writings and his contributions to the various fields of philosophy. It shows how his theory of semantic externalism serves as a lynchpin for understanding his thought as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Road to Semantic Externalism i. The Legacy of Positivism ii. A New Theory of Natural Kind Termsiii. Early Putnam and Scientific Naturalism iv. The Meaning of 'Meaning' v. The Scope of Putnam's Externalism vi. Conclusion2, Externalism, Realism and Skepticism i. Benedict Putnam? ii. Scientific Realism and Metaphysical Realism iii. The Model Theoretic Argument iv. Verificationist Semantics? v. Internal Realism vi. Brains in a Vatvii. Conceptual Relativityviii. Conclusion3. Mind, Body and World i. The Rise of Functionalism ii. The Fall of Computational Functionalism iii. Externalism and Content iv. Problems with Perception4. The Collapse of the Absolute Perspectivei. Putnam's Pragmatismii. Collapse of the Fact/Value Distinctioniii. Implications for Religion, Politics and other Discoursesiv. The Future of Philosophy

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• Authors: Lance P Hickey, Lance P. Hickey, Hickey Lance P.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2009
• EAN: 9781847060761
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-076-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Continuum Contemporary America; Continuum Contemporary America; Continuum Contemporary American Thinkers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -