Hilary Putnam
Words and Life
Contents
Introduction by James Conant xi
I. The
Return of Aristotle
1.
How Old is theMind? 3
2.
Changing Aristotle’s Mind (with Martha C. Nussbaum) 22
3. Aristotle after Wittgenstein 62
II. The Legacy of Logical Positivism
4. Logical Positivism and Intentionality 85
5. Reichenbach’s Metaphysical Picture 99
6. Reichenbach
and the Myth of the Given 115
7. Reichenbach and the Limits of Vindication 131
III. The Inheritance of Pragmatism
8. Pragmatism and Morai Objectivity 151
9. Pragmatism and Relativism: Universal Values and
Traditional Ways of Life 182
10. Dewey’s Logic: Epistemology as Hypothesis (with Ruth Anna Putnam) 198
11. Education for Democracy (with
Ruth Anna Putnam) 221
IV. Essays after Wittgenstein
12.Rethinking Mathematical
Necessity 245
13.Does the Disquotational Theory of
Truth Solve All Philosophical Problems?
264
14.Realism without Absolutes 279
15.The Question of Realism 295
V. Truth
and Reference
16. On Truth 315
17. A Comparison of Something with Something Else 330
18. Model Theory and the “Factuality” of
Semantics 351
19.
Probability and the Mental 376
VI. Mind and Language
20. Artificial Intelligence: Much
Ado about Not VeryMuch 391
21. Models and Modules: Fodor’s The
Modularity of Mind 403
22. Reflexive Reflections 416
23. Reductionism and the Nature
of Psychology 428
24. Why Functionalism Didn’t
Work 441
VII. The
Diversity of the Sciences
25. The Diversity of the
Sciences 463
26. The Idea of Science 481
27. Three Kinds of Scientific
Realism 492
28. Philosophy of Mathematics:
Why Nothing Works 499
29. The Cultural Impact of
Newton: Pope’s Essay on Man and Those “Happy Pieties” 513
Credits 523
Index 527