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Author:

Putnam, Hilary, author.

Title:

Naturalism, realism, and normativity / Hilary Putnam ; edited by Mario De Caro.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

vi, 238 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Realism.
Naturalism.
Perception (Philosophy)
Normativity (Ethics)

Other Authors:

De Caro, Mario, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Liberal naturalism and normativity -- Naturalism, realism, and normativity -- On Bernard Williams' "philosophy as a humanistic discipline" -- What evolutionary theory doesn't tell us about ethics -- Realism and ontology -- Sosa on internal realism and conceptual relativity -- Richard Boyd on scientific realism -- Realism and verificationism -- Hans Reichenbach: realist and verificationist -- Between Scylla and Charybdis: does Dummett have a way through? -- When "evidence transcendence" is not malign -- Na©ve realism, sensation, and apperception -- Sensation and apperception -- Perception without sense data -- "Na©ve realism" and qualia -- Looking back -- The development of externalist semantics -- Sixty-five years of philosophy: a participant's thoughts and experiences.

Summary:

"This collection of essays by Hilary Putnam, one of the very few contemporary grand masters of philosophy, presents the last development of Putnam's reflections regarding the core issue of his entire career: how to develop a form of philosophical realism able to account for both the scientific and the humanistic view of the world - that is, a conception in which the naturalistic view of the world can be reconciled with the acknowledgment that normative phenomena are a fundamental part of our lives. Many great philosophers, from Hume to Kant, from Mill to Sellars, from Quine to Davidson, have faced this challenge."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674659694
9780674659698

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926061397

LCCN:

2015033370

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)