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analytic philosophy history
Author_Maximilian De Gaynesford
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Experiential Beliefs
Follow
Human Psychological States
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Natural Kind Terms
Natural Kind Words
Negative Unit Charge
Ostensive Definition
philosophy
philosophy of mind
Phlogiston
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Putnam 1960b
Putnam 1962c
Putnam 1978a
Putnam's Thinking
Putnam's View
Putnam's Writings
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Putnam’s Thinking
Putnam’s View
Putnam’s Writings
quantum mechanics interpretation
Referential Relations
scientific realism
semantic externalism
Socio-physical Environment
Sociophysical Environment
Sub-sentential Expressions
Subsentential Expressions
theory of meaning
Turing Machine
Unconceptualized Reality
Undetached Rabbit Part
Vice Versa
Viennese
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- ISBN 9781844650415
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Maximilian de Gaynesford is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK.
