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Mind, Language & Reality #2: Philosophical Papers: Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality

by Hilary Putnam

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Professor Hilary Putnam??'s most important published work is collected here in two volumes.

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Professor Hilary Putnam's most important published work is collected here in two volumes.

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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.
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Introduction; 1. Language and philosophy; 2. The analytic and synthetic; 3. Do true assertions correspond to reality?; 4. Some issues in the theory of grammar; 5. The ‘innateness hypothesis’and explanatory models in linguistics; 6. How not to talk about meaning; 7. Review of The concept of a person; 8. Is semantics possible?; 9. The refutation of conventionalism; 10. Reply to Gerald Massey; 11. Explanation and reference; 12. The meaning of ‘meaning’; 13. Language and reality; 14. Philosophy and our mental life; 15. Dreaming and ‘depth grammar’; 16. Brains and behaviour; 17. Other minds; 18. Minds and machines; 19. Robots: machines or artificially created life?; 20. The mental life of some machines; 21. The nature of mental states; 22. Logical positivism and the philosophy of mind; Bibliography; Index.

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ISBN:
9780521295512
Subtitle:
Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality
Editor:
Putnam, Hilary
Editor:
Putnam, Hilary
Author:
Putnam
Author:
Putnam, Hilary
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Location:
Cambridge
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Philosophy
Series:
Mind, Language & Reality
Series Volume:
2
Publication Date:
April 1979
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Paperback
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English
Pages:
476
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918x614x122 156
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