Engaging Putnam / / ed. by James Conant, Sanjit Chakraborty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Menahem, Yemima,; Button, Tim,; Chakraborty, Sanjit,; Conant, James,; Cook, Roy T,; De Caro, Mario,; Ebbs, Gary,; Gaynesford, Maximilian de,; Goldberg, Sanford C.,; Maudlin, Tim,; Nussbaum, Martha C.,; Pritchard, Duncan,; Thorpe, Joshua R.,; Wright, Crispin,
• HerausgeberIn: Chakraborty, Sanjit,; Conant, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 363 p.)

Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As student of Rudolph Carnap's and Hans Reichenbach's, he went on to become not only a major figure in North American analytic philosophy, who made significant contributions to the philosoph...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• An Introduction to Hilary Putnam
• Introduction to this Volume
• Putnam’s Proof Revisited
• Language, Meaning, and Context Sensitivity: Confronting a “Moving-Target”
• Externalism and the First-Person Perspective
• Putnam on Trans-Theoretical Terms and Contextual Apriority
• Mathematical Internal Realism
• The Labyrinth of Quantum Logic
• Fulfillability, Instability, and Incompleteness
• Putnam’s Aristotle
• Davidson and Putnam on the Antinomy of Free Will
• Putnam on Radical Scepticism: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Occasion- Sensitive Semantics
• Natural Laws and Human Language
• Balance in The Golden Bowl: Attuning Philosophy and Literary Criticism
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index