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Philosophy as Dialogue by Hilary Putnam
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £31.82A collection of Hilary Putnam's stimulating, incisive responses to such varied and eminent thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, Martha Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars,... -
Reason, Truth and History by Hilary Putnam
Booksplease Price: £24.64Hilary 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... -
Renewing Philosophy Hilary Putnam 9780674760943
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.46Hilary 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... -
The Many Faces of Realism by Hilary Putnam 9780812690439
Booksplease Price: £17.03"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... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521813112
Booksplease Price: £82.70The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the... -
Ethics without Ontology by Hilary Putnam 9780674018518
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective-a question that has vexed... -
Hilary Putnam by Maximilian de Gaynesford 9781844650415
Booksplease Price: £45.17Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521012546
Booksplease Price: £30.55The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the... -
Hilary Putnam by Lance P. Hickey 9781847060778
Booksplease Price: £31.86Hilary Putnam is one of America's most important living philosophers. This book offers an introduction to and overview of Putnam's ideas, his writings and his contributions to the various fields of... -
The End of Value-Free Economics Hilary Putnam 9781138799554
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout... -
The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World by Hilary Putnam
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40What 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... -
Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism James Conant 9780415408431
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.This specially... -
Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics by Geoffrey Hellman 9783319962733
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £54.45This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars... -
Philosophy of Logic (Routledge Revivals) Hilary Putnam 9780415581257
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1971, Professor Putnam's essay concerns itself with the ontological problem in the philosophy of logic and mathematics - that is, the issue of whether the abstract entities spoken... -
Pragmatism: An Open Question Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) 9780631193432
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.71Hilary 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... -
Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives? Hilary Putnam 9781138517622
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This volume brings together leading scholars to examine Darwinian perspectives on morality from widely ranging disciplines: evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology... -
Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals) Hilary Putnam 9780415581240
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and... -
The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences by Hilary Putnam
Booksplease Price: £60.08First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam's dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to... -
The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences by Hilary Putnam 9780415688109
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1990, this is a reissue of Professor Hilary Putnam's dissertation thesis, written in 1951, which concerns itself with The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 1: Mathematics, Matter and Method by Hilary Putnam
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.55Professor 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,... -
The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays by Hilary Putnam 9780674013803
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes... -
Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam by George Boolos 9780521115858
Booksplease Price: £41.67In this festschrift for the eminent philosopher Hilary Putnam, a team of distinguished philosophers write on a broad range of topics and thus reflect the remarkably fertile and provocative research... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 3: Realism and Reason by Hilary Putnam 9780521313940
Booksplease Price: £30.55This 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... -
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein by Hilary Putnam
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Distinguished 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... -
The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness: Von Balthasar's Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology by Victoria S. Harrison 9789401037891
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £90.56The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing,... -
The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the Meaning of Meaning: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the "Meaning of Meaning" by Andrew Pessin 9781563248740
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning,... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality by Hilary Putnam 9780521295512
Booksplease Price: £33.80Professor 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,... -
Hilary Putnam's Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life by Massimo Dell'utri 9781666912319
Booksplease Price: £85.65Hilary Putnam's Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life emphasizes both the nature of Hilary Putnam's link to the Neopositivist tradition and his progressive critical departure... -
Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey by Hilary Putnam 9780674967502
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £40.64Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical "positions" as experiments in deliberate living. His aim... -
The Many Faces of Religious Truth: Hilary Putnam's Pragmatic Pluralism on Religion by N. Brunsveld 9789042933774
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £87.12Religious statements can be true or false, and are not merely arbitrary or personally meaningful. That is the core thesis of this work in pragmatist philosophy of religion. Other... -
The Practice of Language by Martin Gustafsson 9789048160532
Booksplease Price: £92.14How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice? What do theoretical notions and models tell us about real-life language use? Are there any limits to what such notions and models can... -
The Practice of Language by Martin Gustafsson 9781402006913
Booksplease Price: £91.95How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice? What do theoretical notions and models tell us about real-life language use? Are there any limits to what such notions and models can... -
A Companion to Pragmatism John R. Shook (Center for Inquiry and University of Buffalo, USA) 9781405188333
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.26A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today. Unique in depth and coverage... -
Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion by Sami Pihlström 9781666926279
Booksplease Price: £85.65Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist... -
Reading Putnam Bob Hale (University of St Andrews) 9780631199953
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12From the philosophy of mind and language, through physics and mathematics, to the philosophy of the human sciences, morality and religion, there is almost no area of philosophy to which Hilary Putnam... -
Diagnosing Contemporary Philosophy with the Matrix Movies by O. Bradley Bassler 9781349845989
Booksplease Price: £55.35This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: "What is the Matrix?" Guided by the example of the Matrix film trilogy, the author examines issues ranging... -
Wittgenstein’s Annotations to Hardy’s Course of Pure Mathematics: An Investigation of Wittgenstein’s Non-Extensionalist Understanding of the Real Numbers by Juliet Floyd 9783030484804
Booksplease Price: £112.42This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.H. Hardy's classic textbook, A Course of Pure Mathematics. Complete with actual images of the... -
Reflections on Chomsky Alexander L. George (Amherst College) 9780631179191
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12Philosophical essays to celebrate Chomsky's contributionsThis collection of writings was compiled to honor the leading linguist Noam Chomsky. Reflections on Chomsky celebrates the linguist's... -
Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics by John Owens 9781498560405
Booksplease Price: £37.42Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist... -
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.45The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty's Pragmatism...