Renewing Philosophy Reissue Edition

by Hilary Putnam (Author)

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Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical questions--a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.

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By criticizing some theses of cognitive science and evolutionary theory, noted Harvard philosopher Putnam tries to show that present-day science does not provide an adequate metaphysics. He then examines Williams's metaphysically materialist view of the world and argues that the attempt to eliminate the normative in favor of a scientific account of how things "really are" is misguided. Putnam then dismisses a variety of relativisms and realisms. He concludes by considering Wittgenstein on religious belief and Dewey on democracy and finds that philosophical reflection that sympathetically examines forms of life not our own or that honestly probes our professed commitments can dissolve prejudices and thereby encourage us to consider possibilities we did not hitherto recognize. A clear, stimulating, and compact discussion that should be part of every major philosophy library.
- Robert Hoffman, York Coll.,
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In this bold, energetic, and extensive work, Putnam undertakes a revitalization of philosophy. He wants to put philosophy back in touch with the 'human issues which it has always been philosophy's highest goal to articulate'...This is exciting and engaging stuff, and anyone with an interest in philosophy, at whatever level, will enjoy it and learn from it. (A. W. Moore Times Literary Supplement)

Putnam has become a thinker to be reckoned with in the humanities, and Renewing Philosophy should provide the best approach to his thought. (David Gorman Philosophy and Literature)

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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reissue edition (August 11, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674760948
ISBN-13: 978-0674760943
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,643,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Good book

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I'm still in the mid of the book and I enjoy it

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Heavy book that needs consentration!

May 5, 1999

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I only reed chapter 9, since this was what I had to read for my assignment. I found it interesting but very heavy. Maby someone else find the book better? I should add that I am not a native speaker of English.

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