Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy in an age of science : physics, mathematics, and skepticism / Hilary Putnam ; edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur.

Author

Putnam, Hilary

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Caro, Mario.
• Macarthur, David

Description

xi, 659 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Selection of thirty six articles by Putnam, mostly written after 2000.

Subject

• Philosophy, American > 20th century
• Philosophy, American > 21st century

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : Hilary Putnam : artisanal polymath of philosophy / Mario de Caro and David MacArthur -- Science and philosophy (2010) -- From quantum mechanics to ethics and back again (2012) -- Corresponding with reality (2011) -- On not writing off scientific realism (2010) -- The content and appeal of "naturalism" (2004) -- A philosopher looks at quantum mechanics (again) (2005) -- Quantum mechanics and ontology (2011) -- The curious story of quantum logic (2011) -- Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics (2006) -- Revisiting the Liar Paradox (2000) -- Set theory : realism, replacement, and modality (2007) -- On axioms of set existence (2011) -- The Gödel Theorem and human nature (2011) -- After Gödel (2006) -- Nonstandard models and Kripke's proof of the Gödel Theorem (2000) -- A proof of the underdetermination "doctrine" (2011) -- A theorem of Craig's about Ramsey sentences (2011) -- The fact/value dichotomy and its critics (2011) --^
• Capabilities and two ethical theories (2008) -- The epistemology of unjust war (2006) -- Cloning people (1999) -- Wittgenstein and realism (2007) -- Was Wittgenstein really an antirealist about mathematics? (2001) -- Rules, attunement, and "applying words to the world" : the struggle to understand Wittgenstein's vision of language (2001) -- Wittgenstein, realism, and mathematics (2002) -- Wittgenstein and the real numbers (2007) -- (With Juliet Floyd) Wittgenstein's "notorious" paragraph about the Gödel Theorem : recent discussions (2008) -- Wittgenstein : a reappraisal (2011) -- Skepticism, stroud, and contextuality of knowledge (2001) -- Skepticism and occasion-sensitive semantics (1998) -- Strawson and skepticism (1998) -- Philosophy as the education of grownups : Stanley Cavell and skepticism (2006) -- The depths and shallows of experience (2005) -- Aristotle's mind and the contemporary mind (2000) -- Functionalism : cognitive science or science fiction? (1997) --^
• How to be a sophisticated "naïve realist" (2011).

ISBN

9780674050136 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011035336

OCLC

• 748941754
• SCSB-11065399

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library