Ethics without ontology

Ethics Without Ontology

✍ Hilary Putnam 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

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 t

Ethics Without Ontology

📁 Ethics Without Ontology

✍ Putnam Hilary 📂 Library 🌐 English

Ethics without Ontology

📁 Ethics without Ontology

✍ Hilary Putnam 📂 Library 📅 2004 🌐 English

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

Ethics without Ontology

📁 Ethics without Ontology

✍ Hilary Putnam 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p>Can ethical judgments properly be considered objective? Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology’s influence on analytic philosophy—in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments—Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of on

Ethics Without Ontology

📁 Ethics Without Ontology

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Ontology Without Borders

📁 Ontology Without Borders

✍ Jody Azzouni 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. They appear to have boundaries in space and time, for example, and they appear to move independently of a background of other objects or a landscape. In <e

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