Hilary Putnam

The Threefold Cord

Mind, Body, and World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers solutions to some of philosophy's vexing problems. This book examines the problem of realism: Is objective truth possible? It acknowledges the impasse between empirical and idealist approaches to this question, critiquing them both, however, by highlighting the false assumption they share, that we cannot perceive the world directly.

Produktdetails

• The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780231102872
• ISBN-10: 0231102879
• Artikelnr.: 22161446

Autorenporträt

Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Among his many books are Philosophical Papers, Realism with a Human Face, Words and Life, Renewing Philosophy, and Pragmatism.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Sense, Nonsense and the Senses: An Inquiry into the Powers of the
Human Mind
1. The Antinomy of Realism
2. The Importance of Being Austin: The Need for a "Second Naivete"
3. The Face of Cognition
Part II: Mind and Body
1. "I Thought of what I called 'an Automatic Sweetheart''"
2. Are Psychological Conditions ''Internal States"?
3. Psychophysical Correlation
Part III: Afterwords
First Afterword: Causation and Explanation
Second Afterword: Are Appearances "Qualia"?