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The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, Macintyre, and Kuhn (Chap. 3 "Between the New Left and Judaism: Hilary Putnam") » Read Now
by Rosanna Crocitto, Giovanna Borradori. 180 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the...
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In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's The American Scholar, this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the participants discuss the rise of post-analytic philosophy in America and its relations to European thought and to the American pragmatist tradition. They comment on their own intellectual development as well as each others' work, charting the course of American philosophy over the past few decades. Giovanna Borradori, in her substantial introduction, explains the history of the analytic movement in America and the home-grown reaction against it. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American philosophy was a socially engaged interdisciplinary enterprise. In transcendentalism and pragmatism, then the dominant currents in American thought, philosophy was connected to history, psychology, and public issues. But in the 1930s, the imported European movement of logical positivism redefined philosophical discourse in terms of mathematical logic and theory of language. Under the influence of this analytic view, American philosophy became a professionalized discipline, divorced from public debate and intellectual history and antagonistic to the other, more humanistic tradition of continental thought. The American Philosopher explores the opposition between analytic and continental thought and shows how recent American work has begun to bridge the gap between the two traditions. Through a reexamination of pragmatism, and through an attempt to understand philosophy in a more hermeneutical way, the participants narrow the distance between America's distinctly scientific philosophy and Europe's more literary approach. Moving beyond classical analytic philosophy, the participants confront each other on a number of topics. The logico-linguistic orientations of Quine and Davidson come up against the more discursive, interdisciplinary agendas of Rorty, Putnam, and Cavell. Nozick's theory of pluralist anarchism goes face-to-face with the aesthetic neo-foundationalism of Danto. And Kuhn's hypothesis of paradigm shifts is measured against MacIntyre's ethics of "virtues." Borradori's conversations offer an unconventional portrait of the way philosophers think about their work; scholars and students will not be its only beneficiaries, so will everyone who wonders about the current state of American philosophy.
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The Many Faces of Realism » Read Now
by Hilary Putnam. 102 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...The Paul Carus Lectures HILARY PUTNAM OPEN COURT LaSalle, Illinois...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Putnam, Hilary. The many faces of realism...again, I have to thank Ruth...
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The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World » Read Now
by Hilary Putnam. 234 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Pragmatism in Law and Society (Chap. 12 "A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy" by Hilary Putnam) » Read Now
by Michael Brint, William Weaver. 404 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Spelman, Richard A. Posner, Hilary Putnam, Margaret Jane Radin, Richard...first section concludes with Hilary Putnams pragmatic justification for democracy...figures as...
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The Philosophy of W.V. Quine (Chap. 15 "Hilary Putnam: Meaning Holism") » Read Now
by Lewis Edwin Hahn, Paul Arthur Schilpp, W. V. Quinn. 712 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Mathematics 369 REPLY TO CHARLES D. PARSONS 396 15. Hilary Putnam: Meaning Holism 405 REPLY TO HILARY PUTNAM 427 16. Paul A. Roth: Semantics without Foundations 433...
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The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture ("Pragmatism and Realism" by Hilary Putnam begins on p. 37, "Response to Hilary Putnam's 'Pragmatism and Realism' " begins on p. 54, and discussion of Hilary Putnam begins on p. 128) » Read Now
by Morris Dickstein. 454 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the...
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Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the 1960s, however, pragmatism in many guises has again gained prominence, finding congenial places to flourish within growing intellectual movements. This volume of new essays brings together leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, social thinkers, and literary critics to examine the far-reaching effects of this revival.As the twenty-five intellectuals who take part in this discussion show, pragmatism has become a complex terrain on which a rich variety of contemporary debates have been played out. Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy Fraser, Robert Westbrook, Hilary Putnam, and Morris Dickstein trace pragmatism's cultural and intellectual evolution, consider its connection to democracy, and discuss its complex relationship to the work of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. They show the influence of pragmatism on black intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, explore its view of poetic language, and debate its effects on social science, history, and jurisprudence. Also including essays by critics of the revival such as Alan Wolfe and John Patrick Diggins, the volume concludes with a response to the whole collection from Stanley Fish.Including an extensive bibliography, this interdisciplinary work provides an in-depth and broadly gauged introduction to pragmatism, one that will be crucial for understanding the shape of the transformations taking place in the American social and philosophical scene at the end of the twentieth century.Contributors: Richard Bernstein, David Bromwich, Ray Carney, Stanley Cavell, Morris Dickstein, John Patrick Diggins, Stanley Fish, Nancy Fraser, Thomas C. Grey, Giles Gunn, Hans Joas, James T. Kloppenberg, David Luban, Louis Menand, Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Poirier, Richard A. Posner, Ross Posnock, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Richard Rorty, Michel Rosenfeld, Richard H. Weisberg, Robert B. Westbrook, Alan Wolfe
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Toward a Naturalistic Political Theory: Aristotle, Hume, Dewey, Evolutionary Biology, and Deep Ecology (Discussion of Hilary Putnam begins on p. 5) » Read Now
by Terry Hoy. 148 pgs.

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Hoy seeks to establish a basis for a naturalistic political theory as a continuity from Aristotle through the Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment contributions of HUme and Dewey along with more recent development in Evolutionary Biology and Deep Ecology. He argues that this continuity can be seen...
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Hoy seeks to establish a basis for a naturalistic political theory as a continuity from Aristotle through the Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment contributions of HUme and Dewey along with more recent development in Evolutionary Biology and Deep Ecology. He argues that this continuity can be seen as a corrective to inadequacies in both the reductive naturalism of classical liberalism as well as radical historicism or cultural relativism.
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The Problem of Language and Mental Representation in Aristotle and St. Thomas, in The Review of Metaphysics (Includes section "Putnam's Criticism") » Read Now
by John P. O'Callaghan. 47 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...language, mind, and the world, or as Hilary Putnam often puts it, "how language hooks...in Representation and Reality, Hilary Putnam refers to the theses from the...to at...
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Concepts, Beings, and Things in Contemporary Philosophy and Thomas Aquinas, in The Review of Metaphysics » Read Now
by John O'Callaghan. 30 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...characterize briefly what I have in mind. Hilary Putnam, one of the most forceful critics...10 Years Later," 361-370. (2) Hilary Putnam, Representation and Reality...
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Essays on Aristotle's de Anima (Discussion of Hilary Putnam begins on p. 13 and Chap. 3 "Changing Aristotle's Mind" by Martha C. Nussbaum and Hilary Putnam) » Read Now
by Martha C. Nussbaum, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty. 457 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The...
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Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.u
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Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy ("The Kripke-Putnam Theory of Reference" begins on p. 162) » Read Now
by Brian Bix. 222 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Criticism of Brink 160 The Kripke-Putnam Theory of Reference 162 A Further Look at Natural...Authority of Law , 73-4 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979 ; H. Putnam, "The Meaning...
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Objectivity in Law ("Putnam and Natural Kinds" begins on p. 29) » Read Now
by Nicos Stavropoulos. 216 pgs.

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This book addresses a central topic in contemporary jurisprudence, namely, whether it is possible for legal interpretations to be objective. The author argues that objectivity is possible in law, and grounds this possibility firmly in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and meta-ethics. He...
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This book addresses a central topic in contemporary jurisprudence, namely, whether it is possible for legal interpretations to be objective. The author argues that objectivity is possible in law, and grounds this possibility firmly in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and meta-ethics. He then systematically explores the philosophical prejudices that have operated as sources of resistance to this possibility. These prejudices, once identified, help to illuminate fundamental debates in jurisprudence.
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Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses (Discussion of Hilary Putnam begins on pgs. 22 and 64) » Read Now
by Michael Hymers. 228 pgs.

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Michael Hymers is currently assistant professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism » Read Now
by James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen. 243 pgs.

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One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic. This collection discusses the realist and pragmatist debate.
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Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Chap. 12 "1938 Publication of Hans Reichenbach's Experience and Prediction" by Hilary Putnam) » Read Now
by Juliet Floyd, Sanford Shieh. 463 pgs.

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This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including...
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This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex interaction between science and philosophical reflection.
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