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Philosophy of Mathematics
Selected Readings
Av Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
649 kr
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The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school …
Reason, Truth and History
Häftad, 1981
390 kr
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Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these …
Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)
Inbunden, 2011
995 kr
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First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the …
Ethics without Ontology
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective—a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through …
Many Faces of Realism
Häftad, 1999
320 kr
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"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the …
Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
Häftad, 2004
296 kr
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If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical …
The Threefold Cord
Mind, Body, and World
Häftad, 2001
253 kr
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What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well. Hilary Putnam has approached the divisions …
Jewish Philosophy As a Guide to Life
Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein
Inbunden, 2008
275 kr
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Distinguished philosopher Hilary Putnam, who is also a practicing Jew, questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the 20th century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life. An additional presence in …
Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
Inbunden, 2010
2691 kr
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First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves. …
Philosophy of Logic (Routledge Revivals)
Inbunden, 2010
2128 kr
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First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not …
Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
Häftad, 2010
908 kr
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First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves. …
Philosophy of Logic (Routledge Revivals)
Häftad, 2011
748 kr
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First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals with the question of whether or not …
End of Value-Free Economics
Av Hilary Putnam, Vivian Walsh
Inbunden, 2011
2581 kr
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This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA …
Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences (Routledge Revivals)
Häftad, 2012
559 kr
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First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam’s dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction. Written under the …
Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method
Av Hilary Putman, Hilary Putnam m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
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487 kr
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Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy …
Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality
Av Hilary Putnam, Hilary Putnam
Häftad, 1979
434 kr
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Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy …
Philosophical Papers: Volume 3, Realism and Reason
Häftad, 1985
487 kr
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This is the third volume of Hilary Putnam's philosophical papers, published in paperback for the first time. The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist' position developed in his earlier work. While not renouncing those views, …
Pragmatism
An Open Question
Häftad, 1994
523 kr
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Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to pragmatism - and confronts the teachings of James, …
Philosophy in an Age of Science
Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism
Av Hilary Putnam, Mario De Caro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
747 kr
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Hilary Putnam’s unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable continuity. A simultaneous interest in science and ethics—unusual in the current climate of contention—has long characterized his thought. In Philosophy …
Philosophy as Dialogue
Av Hilary Putnam, Mario De Caro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
389 kr
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A collection of Hilary Putnam’s stimulating, incisive responses to such varied and eminent thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jürgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, Martha Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and Cornel West.Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) was renowned—some would say infamous—for …
Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity
Av Hilary Putnam, Mario De Caro
Inbunden, 2021
564 kr
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Hilary Putnam’s ever-evolving philosophical oeuvre has been called “the history of recent philosophy in outline”—an intellectual achievement, nearly seventy years in the making, that has shaped disciplinary fields from epistemology to ethics, metaphysics to the philosophy of physics, the philosophy …
Realism with a Human Face
Av Hilary Putnam, James Conant
Häftad, 1992
451 kr
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The time has come to reform philosophy, says Hilary Putnam, one of America’s great philosophers. He calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once did claim to represent. Putnam’s goal is to embed …
Renewing Philosophy
Häftad, 1995
507 kr
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Hilary Putnam, one of America’s most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions—a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His …
Words and Life
Av Hilary Putnam, James Conant
Häftad, 1995
507 kr
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Hilary Putnam has been convinced for some time that the present situation in philosophy calls for revitalization and renewal; in this latest book he shows us what shape he would like that renewal to take. Words and Life offers a sweeping account of the sources of several of the central problems of …
Pragmatism as a Way of Life
The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey
Av Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
564 kr
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Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical “positions” as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. …
Trial and Error Predicates and the Solutions to a Problem of Mostowski's
Inbunden, 2023
356 kr
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Trial and Error Predicates and the Solutions to a Problem of Mostowski's
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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Philosophy of Mathematics
Selected Readings
Av Hilary Putnam, Paul Benacerraf
E-bok, 1984
652 kr
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The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented ''crisis in the foundations of mathematics'', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell''s Paradox), a challenge to ''classical'' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the ''mathematical intuitionism'' of Brouwer), a new foundational …
