Philosophy in an Age of Science. Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism
Hilary Putnam
Edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur
672 pages
Harvard University Press
April 2012
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Hilary Putnam: Artisanal Polymath of Philosophy / Mario De Caro and David Macarthur
- Part 1: On the Relations between Philosophy and Science
- 1. Science and Philosophy (2010)
- 2. From Quantum Mechanics to Ethics and Back Again (2012)
- 3. Corresponding with Reality (2011)
- 4. On Not Writing Off Scientific Realism (2010)
- 5. The Content and Appeal of “Naturalism” (2004)
- 6. A Philosopher Looks at Quantum Mechanics (Again) (2005)
- 7. Quantum Mechanics and Ontology (2011)
- 8. The Curious Story of Quantum Logic (2011)
- Part 2: Mathematics and Logic
- 9. Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2006)
- 10. Revisiting the Liar Paradox (2000)
- 11. Set Theory: Realism, Replacement, and Modality (2007)
- 12. On Axioms of Set Existence (2011)
- 13. The Gödel Theorem and Human Nature (2011)
- 14. After Gödel (2006)
- 15. Nonstandard Models and Kripke’s Proof of the Gödel Theorem (2000)
- 16. A Proof of the Underdetermination “Doctrine” (2011)
- 17. A Theorem of Craig’s about Ramsey Sentences (2011)
- Part 3: Values and Ethics
- 18. The Fact/Value Dichotomy and Its Critics (2011)
- 19. Capabilities and Two Ethical Theories (2008)
- 20. The Epistemology of Unjust War (2006)
- 21. Cloning People (1999)
- Part 4: Wittgenstein: Pro and Con
- 22. Wittgenstein and Realism (2007)
- 23. Was Wittgenstein Really an Antirealist about Mathematics? (2001)
- 24. Rules, Attunement, and “Applying Words to the World”: The Struggle to Understand Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language (2001)
- 25. Wittgenstein, Realism, and Mathematics (2002)
- 26. Wittgenstein and the Real Numbers (2007)
- 27. (With Juliet Floyd) Wittgenstein’s “Notorious” Paragraph about the Gödel Theorem: Recent Discussions (2008)
- 28. Wittgenstein: A Reappraisal (2011)
- Part 5: The Problems and Pathos of Skepticism
- 29. Skepticism, Stroud, and the Contextuality of Knowledge (2001)
- 30. Skepticism and Occasion-Sensitive Semantics (1998)
- 31. Strawson and Skepticism (1998)
- 32. Philosophy as the Education of Grownups: Stanley Cavell and Skepticism (2006)
- Part 6: Experience and Mind
- 33. The Depths and Shallows of Experience (2005)
- 34. Aristotle’s Mind and the Contemporary Mind (2000)
- 35. Functionalism: Cognitive Science or Science Fiction? (1997)
- 36. How to Be a Sophisticated “Naïve Realist” (2011)
- Acknowledgments
- Index