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Hilary Putnam
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ISBN: 1844650413 1844650405 9781844650408 9781844650415 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chesham: Acumen,

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Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his work both accurately and accessibly. This is due to the width and diversity of his published writings and to his frequent spells of radical re-thinking. But if we are to understand how and why philosophy is developing as it is, we need to attend to Putnam's whole career. He has had a dramatic influence on theories of meaning, semantic content, and the nature of mental phenomena, on interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic and mathematics, and on what shape we should desire for future philosophy. By presenting the whole of his career within its historical context, de Gaynesford discovers a basic unity in his work, achieved through repeated engagements with a small set of hard problems. By foregrounding this integrity, the book offers an account of his philosophy that is both true to Putnam and helpful to readers of his work.

Expressing the world : skepticism, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger
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ISBN: 0812695348 9780812695342 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): Open Court,

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