Hilary Putnam

✍ Scribed by Maximilian de Gaynesford

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Series: Philosophy Now; 6
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

While Hilary Putnam's work on theories of meaning, semantic content, the nature of mental phenomena, interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic, and mathematics is crucial to recent and future developments in philosophy, the scope and volume of his writings and his radical re-thinking of concepts make it challenging to portray his philosophy accurately.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Context
2. Overview
3. Analytic philosophy
Part II: Character
4. Structural issues
5. Core issues
6. Intentionality
Part III: Content: earlier perspectives
7. Mind
8. Science
9. Language
10. Intentional states
Part IV: Content: later perspectives
11. Reality
12. Reference
13. Truth
14. Experience
15. Conclusion: an integrated vision
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W

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