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Hilary Putnam : realism, reason, and the uses of uncertainty
- Title
- Hilary Putnam : realism, reason, and the uses of uncertainty / Christopher Norris.
- Author
- Norris, Christopher, 1947-
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | B945.P87 .N66 2002 | Off-site |
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- Found In
- Derrida copy 99125489929006421 folder 6
- Description
- viii, 280 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this detailed study, Christopher Norris defends the kinds of arguments advanced by the early realist, Hilary Putnam. Norris makes a point of placing Putnam's work in a wider philosophical context, and relating it to various current debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. Much like Putnam, Norris is willing to take full account of opposed viewpoints while maintaining a vigorously argued commitment to the values of debate and enquiry.
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- Note
- Inscribed copy. Check-in observation: Inscribed: "For Jacques, With best wishes & thanks Chris Norris (Cardiff, July 2004)"
- Stored in box B-000557. Forms part of: The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series. House. Gift Books, Works By and About Derrida, and Related Items.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Realism, scepticism and naturalism: stages on the Putnam road -- Realism, reference and truth: the problem with quantum mechanics -- Squaring with Wittgenstein: versions of 'realism' in Putnam's later philosophy -- Can realism be naturalised? Putnam on sense, commonsense and the senses -- How many positrons make five? science, scepticism and the 'ready-made world' -- The 'many faces' of realism: Reference, meaning and theory-change -- Is logic revisable? Putnam, Quine and 'contextual apriority' -- The Platonist fix: why 'nothing works' (according to Putnam) in philosophy of mathematics -- Putnam, Peano and the malin genie: could we possibly be wrong about elementary number-theory?
- ISBN
- 0719061954
- 9780719061950
- 0719061962
- 9780719061967
- LCCN
- 2002020739
- 9780719061967
- OCLC
- ocm48966696
- 48966696
- SCSB-9479948
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library