Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations VII
4. An Introduction to Hilary Putnam 1
5. Introduction to this Volume 47
6. Putnam’s Proof Revisited 63
7. Language, Meaning, and Context Sensitivity: Confronting a “Moving-Target” 89
8. Externalism and the First-Person Perspective 107
9. Putnam on Trans-Theoretical Terms and Contextual Apriority 131
10. Mathematical Internal Realism 157
11. The Labyrinth of Quantum Logic 183
12. Fulfillability, Instability, and Incompleteness 207
13. Putnam’s Aristotle 227
14. Davidson and Putnam on the Antinomy of Free Will 249
15. Putnam on Radical Scepticism: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Occasion- Sensitive Semantics 263
16. Natural Laws and Human Language 289
17. Balance in The Golden Bowl: Attuning Philosophy and Literary Criticism 309
18. Bibliography 331
19. Contributors 349
20. Index 353