El objetivo de esta obra es acabar con la presión asfixiante que unas cuantas dicotomías parecen ejercer tanto sobre el pensamiento de los filósofos como sobre el de los legos. La principal de estas es la dicotomía entre las...
Este volumen reúne los textos en los que Hilary Putnam y Jürgen Habermas han debatido en torno a la distinción y al estatuto de las normas y los valores. En el debate ambos filósofos combinan la profundidad de visión con...
Los ensayos reunidos en este libro constituyen un acontecimiento intercultural de primer orden. Cultura y modernidad establece un nuevo marco de referencia para la filosofía comparada, pero la amplitud de temas abordados y el renombre de sus colabo...
This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a...
Hilary Putnam's unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable continuity. A simultaneous interest in science and ethicsÃunusual in the current climate...
First published in 1971, Professor Putnams essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken of in logic and mathematics really exist. He also deals...
A renewal of philosophy is precisely the point of this book, drawn from the 1989 Gifford Lectures by one of America's most distinguished philosophers. In a wide-ranging survey of major issues, Hilary Putnam proposes a revitalized approach to philosophical...
The time has come to reform philosophy, says Hilary Putnam, one of America's great philosophers. He calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once...
Traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.
If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent...
Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to pragmati...
This is the third volume of Hilary Putnam's philosophical papers, published in paperback for the first time. The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist'Â position...