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Product Description: First 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 Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction...read more
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9780415687942 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 6, 2011), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: First 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 Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction.
9780824032098 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1990, cover price $37.00

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9780415688109 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 30, 2012), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: First 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 Finite Sequences and the problems of the deductive justification for induction.

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Product Description: This 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 their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA and Walsh a junior member of Lord Robbins’s department at the London School of Economics, both in the early 1950s...read more
By Harvey Gram (contributor), Martha Nussbaum (contributor), Hilary Putnam (editor), Amartya Sen (contributor) and Vivian Walsh (editor)
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9780415665162 | Routledge, December 12, 2011, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics.

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Product Description: First 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 of in logic and mathematics really exist...read more
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9780415581257 | Routledge, August 31, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: First 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 of in logic and mathematics really exist.

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By W. Stegmuller (editor)
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9789027719126 | Kluwer Academic Pub, August 1, 1985, cover price $290.00

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9789048184101 | Springer Verlag, December 22, 2010, cover price $290.00

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Product Description: First 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 non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves...read more
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9780415580915 | Routledge, June 26, 2010, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: First 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 non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves.

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9780415581240 | Routledge, August 23, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: First 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 non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves.
9780710004376 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, December 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: First 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 non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves.

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Product Description: Distinguished 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 Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life...read more
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9780253351333 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Distinguished 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 Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life.

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Product Description: In 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 philosophers over the past century...read more
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9780674013100 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In 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 philosophers over the past century.

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9780674018518 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In 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 philosophers over the past century.

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9788430915774, titled "Razon, Verdad E Historia / Reason, Truth And History" | Tecnos Editorial S A, June 30, 2004, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: Si la filosofía desempeña alguna tarea en el mundo es la de clarificar nuestro pensamiento y despejar las ideas que nos obnubilan la mente. En este libro, uno de los filósofos más importantes de la actualidad se enfrenta a algo que ha hallado un lugar en exceso destacado en la cultura popular y el pensamiento filosófico: la idea de que si bien las afirmaciones fácticas pueden ser establecidas o refutadas racionalmente, las afirmaciones sobre valores son enteramente subjetivas, no susceptibles de argumentación racional a favor o en contra...read more
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9788449315886, titled "El desplome de la dicotomia hecho-valor y otros ensayos / the Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy and Other Essays" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 15, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Si la filosofía desempeña alguna tarea en el mundo es la de clarificar nuestro pensamiento y despejar las ideas que nos obnubilan la mente.

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Product Description: If 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 issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought: the idea that while factual claims can be rationally established or refuted, claims about value are wholly subjective, not capable of being rationally argued for or against...read more
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9780674009059 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 5, 2002, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind.

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9780674013803, titled "The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy: And Other Essays" | Harvard Univ Pr, March 30, 2004, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind.

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9788437612942 | Italian edition edition (Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2002), cover price $16.95

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9788449311079, titled "50 anos de filosofia vistos desde dentro / 50 Years of Philosophy as Seen from Within" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, September 1, 2001, cover price $10.95

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9789023237396 | Van Gorcum Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $11.00

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Product Description: What 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 are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231102872 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality?

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9788449308802, titled "Sentido, sinsentido y los sentidos / Sense, Nonsense and Senses" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, May 3, 2000, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: What 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 are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231102865 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $81.00 | About this edition: What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality?

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9781879557420 | Audio Scholar, July 1, 1996, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: Hilary 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 philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an appropriate model for philosophical inquiry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674760936 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: Hilary 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 philosophy.

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9780674760943 | Reissue edition (Harvard Univ Pr, August 11, 1995), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Hilary 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 philosophy.

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Product Description: Hilary Putnam has been convinced for some time that the present situation in philosophy calls for revitalization and renewal; in this latest book he shows us what shape he would like that renewal to take. Words and Life offers a sweeping account of the sources of several of the central problems of philosophy, past and present, and of why some of those problems are not going to go away As the first four part tides in the volume-"The Return of Aristotle," "The Legacy of Logical Positivism," "The Inheritance of Pragmatism," and "Essays after Wittgenstein"-suggest, many of the essays are concerned with tracing the recent, and the not so recent, history of these problems...read more
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9780674956063 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Hilary Putnam has been convinced for some time that the present situation in philosophy calls for revitalization and renewal; in this latest book he shows us what shape he would like that renewal to take.

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9780674956070 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, August 11, 1995), cover price $40.50 | About this edition: Hilary Putnam has been convinced for some time that the present situation in philosophy calls for revitalization and renewal; in this latest book he shows us what shape he would like that renewal to take.

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Product Description: In this book a philosopher who has been at the centre 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 epistemological issues turns to Pragmatism - and confronts the teaching of James, Peirce, Dewey and Wittgenstein, not solely out of an interest in theoretical questions, but above all to respond to the question whether it is possible to find an alternative to corrosive moral scepticism, of the one hand, and to moral authoritarianism on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780631193425 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: In this book a philosopher who has been at the centre 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 epistemological issues turns to Pragmatism - and confronts the teaching of James, Peirce, Dewey and Wittgenstein, not solely out of an interest in theoretical questions, but above all to respond to the question whether it is possible to find an alternative to corrosive moral scepticism, of the one hand, and to moral authoritarianism on the other.

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9780631193432 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Hilary 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 epistemological issues.

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9788475099804, titled "Las mil caras del realismo / The Many Faces of Realism" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, October 18, 1994, cover price $25.95

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9780896722668 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: The time has come to reform philosophy, says Hilary Putnam, one of America's great philosophers. He calls upon philosophers to attend to the gap between the present condition of their subject and the human aspirations that philosophy should and once did claim to represent...read more
By James Conant (editor) and Hilary Putnam
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9780674749450 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1992), cover price $33.50 | About this edition: The time has come to reform philosophy, says Hilary Putnam, one of America's great philosophers.

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Product Description: Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book...read more
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9780262161084 | Mit Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book.

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9780262660747 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is an apt model for the mind, takes a radically new view of his own theory of functionalism in this book.

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Product Description: "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 history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are...read more
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9780812690439 | Open Court Pub Co, May 1, 1987, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: "The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context.

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