Hilary Putman, Hilary Putnam, Putnam Hilary

Philosophical Papers

Volume 3, Realism and Reason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Volume Three is the completion of philosophical papers by one of America's most distinguished philosophers. His works mark his highly significant and original contribution in a number of related fields and they have been praised for "their sophistication, clear sightedness, depth and power".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521313940
• ISBN-10: 0521313945
• Artikelnr.: 22010232

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Models and reality
2. Equivalence
3. Possibility and necessity
4. Reference and truth
5. "two dogmas' revisited
6. There is at least one a priori truth
7. Analyticity and apriority: beyond Wittgenstein and Quine
8. Computational psychology and interpretation theory
9. Reflections on Goodman's Ways of Worldmaking
10. Convention: a theme in philosophy
11. Philosophers and human understanding
12. Why there isn't a ready-made world
13. Why reason can't be naturalized
14. Quantum mechanics and the observer
15. Vaguenes and alternative logic
16. Beyond historicism
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index.