Philosophy in an age of science:physics, mathematics, and skepticism
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Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | 2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 659 p.: ; 25 cm. |
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9780674050136 (alk. paper) 0674050134 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | B712 |
CLC: | B712 |
Call Number: | B712/P991 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Hilary Putnam : artisanal polymath of philosophy / Mario de Caro and David MacArthur -- Science and philosophy (2010) -- From quantum mechanics to ethics and back again (2012) -- Corresponding with reality (2011) -- On not writing off scientific realism (2010) -- The content and appeal of "naturalism" (2004) -- A philosopher looks at quantum mechanics (again) (2005) -- Quantum mechanics and ontology (2011) -- The curious story of quantum logic (2011) -- Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics (2006) -- Revisiting the Liar Paradox (2000) -- Set theory : realism, replacement, and modality (2007) -- On axioms of set existence (2011) -- The Go del Theorem and human nature (2011) -- After Go del (2006) -- Nonstandard models and Kripke's proof of the Go del Theorem (2000) -- A proof of the underdetermination "doctrine" (2011) -- A theorem of Craig's about Ramsey sentences (2011) -- The fact/value dichotomy and its critics (2011) -- Capabilities and two ethical theories (2008) -- The epistemology of unjust war (2006) -- Cloning people (1999) -- Wittgenstein and realism (2007) -- Was Wittgenstein really an antirealist about mathematics? (2001) -- Rules, attunement, and "applying words to the world" : the struggle to understand Wittgenstein's vision of language (2001) -- Wittgenstein, realism, and mathematics (2002) -- Wittgenstein and the real numbers (2007) -- (With Juliet Floyd) Wittgenstein's "notorious" paragraph about the Go del Theorem : recent discussions (2008) -- Wittgenstein : a reappraisal (2011) -- Skepticism, stroud, and contextuality of knowledge (2001) -- Skepticism and occasion-sensitive semantics (1998) -- Strawson and skepticism (1998) -- Philosophy as the education of grownups : Stanley Cavell and skepticism (2006) -- The depths and shallows of experience (2005) -- Aristotle's mind and the contemporary mind (2000) -- Functionalism : cognitive science or science fiction? (1997) -- How to be a sophisticated "nai ve realist" (2011). |