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Languages : en
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Philosophical Papers
Author: Hilary PutnamPhilosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality
Author: Hilary PutnamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521295512
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry; the second deals with the philosophy of language and mind. Volume one is now issued in a new edition, including an essay on the philosophy of logic first published in 1971.
Representation and Reality
Author: Hilary PutnamPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262660747
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The author, one of the first philosophers to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radical view of his own theory of functionalism in this book.
Reason, Truth and History
Author: Hilary PutnamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521297769
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
'This is a timely book, with penetrating discussion of issues very much in the forefront of the contemporary philosophy. Despite the prominence of negative arguments it contains much to contribute positively to our understanding of what is needed for a conception of rationality and objectivity that covers ethics and value theory generally as well as physics.'
Philosophical Papers
Author: Hilary PutnamWords and Life
Author: Hilary PutnamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674956070
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Putnam offers a sweeping account of the sources of several central problems of philosophy. A unifying theme of the volume is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress.
Themes from Kaplan
Author: Joseph AlmogPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019505217X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Containing sixteen essays by such distinguished contributors as Robert M. Adams, Nathan Salmon, and Scott Soames, this book discusses and expands upon the work of David Kaplan and provides essential new perspectives on the philosophy of language. It includes Kaplan's hitherto unpublished paper, "Demonstratives."
Mind, Meaning, and Reality
Author: D. H. MellorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199645086
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Mind, Meaning, and Reality presents fifteen philosophical papers in which D. H. Mellor explores some of the most intriguing questions in philosophy. These include: what determines what we think, and what we use language to mean; how that depends on what there is in the world and why there is only one universe; and the nature of time.
Meaning and Method
Author: George BoolosPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521360838
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.
Meaning and Use
Author: A. MargalitPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402041047
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem on April 25-28, 1976. The symposium was originally planned to celebrate the 60th birthday of Y ehoshua Bar-Hillel, philosopher and friend. But his sudden death intervened, and turned celebration into commemoration. The topic of the symposiumwas Meaning and Use. For Bar-Hillel, the question 'meaning or use?' was of great importance, one which he took as a question of priorities. Which approach to natural language is prior: the formal, semantical approach, which accords a central position to the truth functional concept of meaning and to the theory of reference, or rather the alternative approach which accords the central position to linguistic commu nication and prefers dealing with speech acts to dealing with Statements? Bar Hillel's answer to this question, in his later years, can be summed up by our title, meaning and use: neither approach deserves priority, each is equally necessary, and they both complement each other. Those familiar with Bar Hillel's uncompromising intellectual honesty would know that this answer does not reflect a superficial wish for domestic peace, but stems rather from deep and informed convictions. The issues of meaning and use dominated Bar-Hillel's intellectuallife. At the same time his day-to-day existence was guided by the idea that the meaning of life is to be found in being useful, particularly in being useful to the community of seekers of knowledge.