Renewing Philosophy
Harvard University Press
1994 |
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Contesting the notion that science alone provides the sole approach to philosophical inquiry, Putnam addresses several topics and suggests a direction for the renewal of philosophy. |
Words and Life
Edited by James Conant
Harvard University Press
1994 |
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This work offers a sweeping account of the sources of several of the central problems of philosophy, past and present. A unifying theme of the volume is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress. |
Realism with a Human Face
Edited by James Conant
Harvard University Press
1992 |
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"In this excellent collection of thematically linked essays, Harvad philosopher Putnam argues that it is time for philosophy to leave its world of system-building and to return to its true place as a form of thought intimately connected with real life...Highly recommended as an antidote to much 20th-century analytic philosophy and the claimed 'death' of metaphysics" -- Terry Skeats, Library Journal |
Representation and Reality
MIT Press
1991 |
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Returning to his theory of functionalism, Putnam aruges that the computational theory of mind cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and knowledge that lie at the heart of the philosophy of the mind. |
Reason, Truth and History
Cambridge University Press
1981 |
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Putnam grapples with some of the most fundamental problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems. |
Mathematics, Matter, and Method
Mind, Language, and Reality
Realism and Reason
Cambridge University Press |
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These three volumes constitute the Philosophical Papers of Hilary Putnam, published by Cambridge University Press. |
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