Hilary Putnam

The Many Faces of Realism, 1987

Preface	1
Lecture I: Is there still anything to say about reality and truth?	3
Intrinsic Properties: dispositions	8
Intrinsic Properties: intentionality	11
Why intentionality is so intractable	13
“The trail of the human serpent is over all”	16
Lecture II: Realism and reasonableness	23
Reality without the dichotomies	32
Lecture III: Equality and our moral image of the world	41
The Frankfurt School’s attempt to justify equality	53
Democracy without a moral image	57
Lecture IV: Reasonabless as a fact and as a value	63
Scientific method	71
The “Epistemological problem”	76
The importance of Peirce’s puzzle	80
Notes
Index