Introduction: Putnam’s Philosophy and Metaphilosophy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Putnam’s Philosophy and Metaphilosophy 1
4. Part I. Liberal Naturalism and Normativity
5. 1. Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity 21
6. 2. On Bernard Williams’s “Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline” 44
7. 3. What Evolutionary Theory Doesn’t Tell Us about Ethics 56
8. Part II. Realism and Ontology
9. 4. Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity 67
10. 5. Richard Boyd on Scientific Realism 90
11. Part III. Realism and Verificationism
12. 6. Hans Reichenbach: Realist and Verificationist 99
13. 7. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Does Dummett Have a Way Through? 114
14. 8. When “Evidence Transcendence” Is Not Malign 128
15. Part IV. Naive Realism, Sensation, and Apperception
16. 9. Sensation and Apperception 139
17. 10. Perception without Sense Data 152
18. 11. “Naive Realism” and Qualia 169
19. Part V. Looking Back
20. 12. The Development of Externalist Semantics 199
21. 13. Sixty- Five Years of Philosophy: A Participant’s Thoughts and Experiences 213
22. Acknowledgments 227
23. Index 231