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1	Philosophy of mathematics; selected readings. more books like this by Paul Benacerraf (Editor), Hilary Putnam add to wishlist The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound ... see all copies from $13.06! new only from $54.70! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition more books like this by Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam add to wishlist The controversy surrounding these unsolved problems is as relevant to the psychology of cognitive development as it is to the philosophy of science. No serious student of either discipline can afford to misunderstand Goodman's classic argument. see all copies from $8.65! new only from $15.18! \| SVS
3	Reason, Truth and History more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent 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. see all copies from $6.08! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $21.57! \| SVS
5	The Many Faces of Realism more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist "The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there ... see all copies from $5.34! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Renewing Philosophy more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist A renewal of philosophy is precisely the point of this book, in which one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveying an astonishingly wide range of major issues, proposes a new, clear-cut approach - an "attitude" - to philosophical questions. Hilary Putnam contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $26.39! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, with a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam more books like this by Franz Rosenzweig (Translator), Nahum N Glatzer (Introduction by), Hilary Putnam (Introduction by) add to wishlist Franz Rosenzweig, one of the century's great Jewish thinkers, wrote his gem of a book in 1921 as a more accessible precis of his famous Star of Redemption. An elegant introduction to Rosenzweig's "new thinking" Understanding the Sick and the Healthy was written for a lay audience and takes the form of an ironic narrative about convalescence. With ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $23.34!
8	Realism with a Human Face more books like this by Hilary Putnam, James Conant add to wishlist In this book, one of America's great philosophers calls upon his peers to embed philosophy in social life. Connecting metaphysics to cultural and literary issues, Putnam argues that the collapse of philosophical realism does not entail a fall into the abyss of relativism and postmodern skepticism. In this collection of thematically linked essays, ... see all copies from $17.25! new only from $23.87! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well. Hilary Putnam has approached the divisions between perception and reality and between mind ... see all copies from $10.95! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Philosophical Papers: Volume 3, Realism and Reason more books like this by Hilary Putman, Hilary Putnam add to wishlist This is the third volume of Hilary Putnam's philosophical papers, published in paperback for the first time. The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist' position developed in his earlier work. While not renouncing those views, Professor Putnam has continued to explore their ... see all copies from $29.00! new only from $47.56! \| SVS
11 view cover	Ethics Without Ontology more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgements can properly be considered objective - a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Hilary Putnam traces the ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $19.16! \| first editions
12 view cover	Words and Life more books like this by Hilary Putnam, James Conant (Introduction by) add to wishlist Hilary Putnam has been convinced for some time that the present situation in philosophy calls for revitalization and renewal; in this book he shows us what shape he would like that renewal to take. "Words and Life" offers an account of the sources of several of the central problems of philosophy, past and present, and of why some of those problems ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $38.00! \| SVS
13 view cover	Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method more books like this by Hilary Putman, Hilary Putnam (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of ... see all copies from $40.80! new only from $59.40! \| SVS
14 view cover	Pragmatism more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to pragmatism - and confronts the teachings of James, Peirce, Dewey, and Wittgenstein - not solely out of ... see all copies from $14.89! new only from $17.99! \| SVS
15	Meaning and the Moral Sciences more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! first editions
16 view cover	Representation and Reality more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist The author, one of the first philosophers to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radical view of his own theory of functionalism in this book. He argues that in fact the computational analogy cannot answer the important questions about the nature of such mental states as belief, reasoning, rationality, and ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Distinguished philosopher Hilary Putnam, who is also a practicing Jew, questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the 20th century - Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas - to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life. An additional presence in the book is Ludwig Wittgenstein, who, ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
18	Mathematics, Matter and Method more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist This volume deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry. see all copies from $13.97! first editions
19 view cover	Mind, Language, and Reality more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of ... see all copies from $30.00! first editions
20 view cover	Joshua Neustein: Five Ash Cities more books like this by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist This work illustrates five installations of ash cities - three-dimensional maps created out of slag and installed on museum floors. The cities represented are: old Salem, (Winston Salem), North Carolina, USA; Berlin; Warsaw; Cleveland, Ohio; and Bne Brak, Israel. Four essays are also included. see all copies from $8.24!
21	Philosophy of Mathematics more books like this by Paul Benacerraf (Photographer), Hilary Putnam (Photographer), Hilary Benacerraf (Editor) add to wishlist The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound ... see all copies from $17.00!
22	El Pragmatismo by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist see all copies from $46.07! new only from $46.07!
23 view cover	Joshua Neustein: Five Ash Cities more books like this by Arthur Coleman Danto, Hilary Putnam, Kristine Stiles add to wishlist One of the most stirring art forms to emerge in the '90s is Joshua Neustein's installations of ash cities. These are three-dimensional maps created out of industrial slag, byproducts of the coal and electric industries, installed on huge museum floors where viewers are invited to wander about within the exhibit. This book illustrates five ... see all copies from $19.83!
24 view cover	Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality more books like this by Hilary Putnam (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of ... see all copies from $18.67! new only from $57.22! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Philosophical Papers. by Hilary Putnam add to wishlist This is the third volume of Hilary Putnam's philosophical papers, published in paperback for the first time. The volume contains his major essays from 1975 to 1982, which reveal a large shift in emphasis in the 'realist' position developed in his earlier work. While not renouncing those views, Professor Putnam has continued to explore their ... see all copies from $166.00!

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