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050 00 $aB835$b.P88 1994
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100 1 $aPutnam, Hilary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50049338
245 10 $aWords and life /$cHilary Putnam ; edited by James Conant.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9405
300 $alxxvi, 531 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aCompanion v. to: Realism with a human face.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / James Conant -- I. The Return of Aristotle. 1. How Old Is the Mind? 2. Changing Aristotle's Mind / Hilary Putnam and Martha C. Nussbaum. 3. Aristotle after Wittgenstein -- II. The Legacy of Logical Positivism. 4. Logical Positivism and Intentionality. 5. Reichenbach's Metaphysical Picture. 6. Reichenbach and the Myth of the Given. 7. Reichenbach and the Limits of Vindication -- III. The Inheritance of Pragmatism. 8. Pragmatism and Moral Objectivity. 9. Pragmatism and Relativism: Universal Values and Traditional Ways of Life. 10. Dewey's Logic: Epistemology as Hypothesis / Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam. 11. Education for Democracy / Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam -- IV. Essays after Wittgenstein. 12. Rethinking Mathematical Necessity. 13. Does the Disquotational Theory of Truth Solve All Philosophical Problems? 14. Realism without Absolutes. 15. The Question of Realism -- V. Truth and Reference. 16. On Truth. 17. A Comparison of Something with Something Else.
505 0 $a18. Model Theory and the "Factuality" of Semantics. 19. Probability and the Mental -- VI. Mind and Language. 20. Artificial Intelligence: Much Ado about Not Very Much. 21. Models and Modules: Fodor's The Modularity of Mind. 22. Reflexive Reflections. 23. Reductionism and the Nature of Psychology. 24. Why Functionalism Didn't Work -- VII. The Diversity of the Sciences. 25. The Diversity of the Sciences. 26. The Idea of Science. 27. Three Kinds of Scientific Realism. 28. Philosophy of Mathematics: Why Nothing Works. 29. The Cultural Impact of Newton: Pope's Essay on Man and Those "Happy Pieties"
520 $aHilary 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 philosophy, past and present, and of why some of those problems are not going to go away.
520 8 $aAs the first four part titles in the volume - "The Return of Aristotle," "The Legacy of Logical Positivism," "The Inheritance of Pragmatism," and "Essays after Wittgenstein" - suggest, many of the essays are concerned with tracing the recent, and the not so recent, history of these problems.
520 8 $aThe goal is to bring out what is coercive and arbitrary about some of our present ways of posing the problems and what is of continuing interest in certain past approaches to them. Various supposedly timeless philosophical problems appear, on closer inspection, to change with altered historical circumstances, while there turns out to be much of permanent value in Aristotle's, Peirce's, Dewey's, and Reichenbach's work on some of the problems that continue to exercise us.
520 8 $aA unifying theme of the volume as a whole is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress. The titles of the final three parts of the volume - "Truth and Reference," "Mind and Language," and "The Diversity of the Sciences" - indicate that the sweep of the problems considered here comprehends all the fundamental areas of contemporary analytic philosophy.
520 8 $aRich in detail, the book is also grand in scope, allowing us to trace the ongoing intellectual evolution of one of the most significant philosophers of the century.
650 0 $aRealism$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111309
650 0 $aPhilosophy$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100850
650 0 $aPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100849
700 1 $aConant, James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88187902
852 00 $bbar$hB835$i.P88 1994