The collapse of the fact-value dichotomy is not merely an academic concern but a doctrine with real consequences…
Hilary Putnam offers a view from within the living activity of philosophy, tracing its major transformations through his…
A Philosopher's Sustained Engagement with the Real, the Normative, and the Limits of Scientific Naturalism Introduction: The Return…
Hilary Putnam argues philosophy retains its own legitimate questions about meaning, truth, and values that cannot be reduced…
Putnam recovers pragmatism as a way of doing philosophy that is fallibilist, anti-skeptical, and attentive to practice.
Putnam argues that meaning is not determined by mental states alone, but involves the social and physical environment…
Putnam introduces trial and error predicates to solve Mostowski's problem, characterizing sets decidable in the limit between recursive…
Putnam argues that neither reductionist scientism nor mysterious mentalism can adequately explain the 'aboutness' of thought and language.
Putnam argues that both rationalist and emotivist traditions fail to account for the actual character of moral experience…
Hilary Putnam's Realism and Reason charts his shift away from mirroring the world toward a view of philosophy…
Putnam establishes a precise technical question regarding the representation of families of sets of natural numbers within formal…
Putnam argues that both logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy have failed to engage seriously with the actual…
Putnam challenges the long-held ideal that economics can be conducted as a purely factual science, entirely separate from…
Hilary Putnam examines what probability means when applied to finite sequences, challenging frequency theories that rely on infinite…
Putnam argues against reducing all inquiry to science, proposing a 'human-faced' realism that avoids the false dichotomy of…
