Ethics without Ontology / / Hilary Putnam.
In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Ethics without Ontology
- LECTURE 1 Ethics without Metaphysics
- LECTURE 2 A Defense of Conceptual Relativity
- LECTURE 3 Objectivity without Objects
- LECTURE 4 “Ontology”: An Obituary
- PART II Enlightenment and Pragmatism
- LECTURE 1 The Three Enlightenments
- LECTURE 2 Skepticism about Enlightenment
- Notes
- Index