Contemporary Philosophy in Focus

✍ Yemima Ben-Menahem 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This volume appraises the major philosophical contributions of Hilary Putnam (b. 1926) to the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. Concerned not only with the broad spectrum of problems addressed, it also details the transformations and rest

Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

📁 Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

✍ Christopher W. Morris 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 "for his contributions in welfare economics." Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is

Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

📁 Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

✍ Yemima Ben-Menahem 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This volume appraises the major philosophical contributions of Hilary Putnam (b. 1926) to the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. Concerned not only with the broad spectrum of problems addressed, it also details the transformations and rest

Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

📁 Contemporary Philosophy In Focus

✍ Yemima Ben-Menahem 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This volume appraises the major philosophical contributions of Hilary Putnam (b. 1926) to the theory of meaning, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. Concerned not only with the broad spectrum of problems addressed, it also details the transformations and rest

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus

📁 Contemporary Philosophy in Focus

✍ Thomas Nickles (ed) 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 CUP 🌐 English

Thomas Kuhn (Contemporary Philosophy in

📁 Thomas Kuhn (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)

✍ Thomas Nickles 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Writers like Kuhn and Polanyi's subjectivistic approach to science are still popular in some circles, mostly because of the west's fascination with individual consciousness and the existential and phenomenological approaches to reality that grew out of that. While this is understandable historically