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Title

Naturalism, realism, and normativity / Hilary Putnam ; edited by Mario De Caro.

Author

Putnam, Hilary

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

De Caro, Mario

Description

vi, 238 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays by Hilary Putnam, one of the very few contemporary grand masters of philosophy, presents the last development of Putnam's reflections regarding the core issue of his entire career: how to develop a form of philosophical realism able to account for both the scientific and the humanistic view of the world - that is, a conception in which the naturalistic view of the world can be reconciled with the acknowledgment that normative phenomena are a fundamental part of our lives. Many great philosophers, from Hume to Kant, from Mill to Sellars, from Quine to Davidson, have faced this challenge."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Realism
• Naturalism
• Perception (Philosophy)
• Normativity (Ethics)
• Naturalism
• Realism

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Putnam's philosophy and metaphilosophy -- I. Liberal naturalism and normativity -- Naturalism, realism, and normativity -- On Bernard Williams' "Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline" -- What evolutionary theory doesn't tell us about ethics -- II. Realism and ontology -- Sosa on internal realism and conceptual relativity -- Richard Boyd on scientific realism -- III. Realism and verificationism -- Hans Reichenbach: realist and verificationist -- Between Scylla and Charybdis: does Dummett have a way through? -- When "evidence transcendence" is not malign -- IV. Naive realism, sensation and apperception -- Sensation and apperception -- Perception without sense data -- "Naive realism" and qualia -- V. Looking back -- The development of externalist semantics -- Sixty-five years of philosophy: a participant's thoughts and experiences.

ISBN

• 9780674659698
• 0674659694

LCCN

^^2015033370

OCLC

• 926061397
• SCSB-10657709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library