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Excerpts

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Science as Approximation to Truth (1974), from the Introduction to Mathematics, Matter, and Method
Qu'est-ce que la vérité mathématique? (1975), Franch translation by Patrick Peccatte (from Mathematics, Matter, and Method)
Philosophie de la logique (1971), Éditions de l'Éclat, 1996
Letteratura, scienza e riflessione (1976)
Wittgenstein e il pragmatismo (more or less Chapter 2 of Pragmatism, 1995), EMSF - Enciclopedia Multimediale delle Scienze Filosofiche -
Excerpts from A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy (Renewing Philosophy, 1992)
From Realism With a Human Face (1990) by Carnegie Mallon University:
- Beyond the Fact\Value Dichotomy (1982) (Cache copy)
- Oltre la dicotomia fatto/valore, da Il realismo dal volto umano, Il Mulino, Bologna 1995, cap. IX, pp. 279-287
- How Not to Solve Ethical Problems (1990)
Preface to Words and Life (1994)
Extract from Ethics without Ontology (2004): Lecture 1, Ethics without Metaphysics
Brains in a vat from Reason, Truth, and History , chapter 1, pp. 1-21 (Cambridge University Press: 1982)
Dewey's Central Insight (Cosenza Conference)

Interviews

Articles

To Think with Integrity, Hilary Putnam's Farewell Lecture, in The Harvard Review of Philosophy, VIII, 2000. The last lecture Putnam gave at Harvard before retiring (June 2000) (cache copy). Italian version
Hilary Putnam, Mezzo secolo di filosofia americana. Uno sguardo dal di dentro ("A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed from Within", in "Daedalus" 126, 1997, pp.175-208). Article published in the Italian review "Iride", December 1997, 10(22), pp.407-437
Per un'etica sperimentale: la lezione di John Dewey, Il Sole 24ore, April 30, 2000

Reviews

The Chosen People: Review of The Jewish Political Tradition, Volume II: Membership, Edited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Ari Ackerman, Yale University Press. February/March 2004 issue of the Boston Review
Review of the book by Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.