Hilary Putnam : realism, reason, and the uses of uncertainty /
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| Author / Creator: | Norris, Christopher, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002. |
| Description: | viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4746321 |
| Summary: | This study examines Hilary Putnam's work in epistemology, philosophy of science and mathematics, philosophical logic and semantics and cognitive psychology. It takes account of his various shifts in philosophical viewpoint over the past four decades, and demonstrates how Putnam arrived at the different positions he has occupied during his career, and discusses the various forms of anti-realist doctrine with which he has engaged. The workd offers commentary on Putnam's writing about conceptual problems in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and places Putnam's work in a wider philosophical context, relating it to various contemporary debates in epistemology and the philosophy of science. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0719061954 0719061962 (pbk.) |
