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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hilary Putnam"”.
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Staðreyndir og gildi : íslensk þýðing á kaflanum Fact and value í bókinni Reason, truth, and history eftir Hilary Putnam
… and value í bók bandaríska heimspekingsins Hilary Putnams Reason, truth, and history sem fyrst kom út árið 1981. Í kaflanum fjallar Putnam um tvíhyggju staðreynda og gilda sem hann telur að eigi sér djúpar rætur í vestrænni heimspekisögu og hafi enn mikil áhrif á hugsunarhátt …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
… have over our beliefs about our experience. For Hilary Putnam, the skeptic trades on presuppositions in the theory of reference. Drawing an alternative account of reference from Ludwig Wittgenstein's work, Putnam refutes a standard skeptical thought-experiment. Putnam focuses on the contemporary …
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On the epistemological significance of aesthetic values in architectural theory
… philosophers and literary theorists such as Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman and Satya P. Mohanty. These writers emphasize the rational and affective nature of our aesthetic experience and our aesthetic values and judgments, and propose a sophisticated account of objectivity by reexamining the …
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Carnap and the Ontology of Mathematics
… by, among others, Kurt Gödel, W. V. Quine, and Hilary Putnam. The most powerful challenge to Carnap's view, however, can actually be found in a less well-known paper by the logician E. W. Beth. The core of my thesis is thus a new interpretation of what I call Beth's argument from non-standard …
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Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
… Haidt (experimental ethics) and (4) John Dewey, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty (pragmatism). I also discuss how some prominent theologians, such as Stanley Hauerwas (Christian virtue ethics) and James Gustafson (theocentric ethics), deal with similar questions. The purpose of this study is …