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Hilary Putnam TherichnessofHilaryPutnam’sphilosophicaloeuvreconsistsnotonlyinthe broadspectrumofproblemsaddressedbutalsointhetransformationsandre- structuringhispositionshaveundergoneovertheyears.Theessayscollected inthisvolumearesensitivetoboththesedimensions.TheydiscussPutnam’s majorphilosophicalcontributionstothetheoryofmeaning,thephilosophyof mind, the philosophy of science and mathematics, and moral theory. But, in addition,tracingthreadsofchangeandcontinuity,theyanalyzethedynamics underlyingtheunfoldingofPutnam’sthought.Thevolumealsoconstitutesa critical introduction to a number of central issues in contemporary philoso- phy,includingquantumlogic,realism,functionalism,the‘mindascomputer’ metaphor,andthefact/valuedichotomy. YemimaBen-MenahemisamemberoftheDepartmentofPhilosophyatthe HebrewUniversityofJerusalem. http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/ChrisRedfield Contemporary Philosophy in Focus ContemporaryPhilosophyinFocusoffersaseriesofintroductoryvolumes tomanyofthedominantphilosophicalthinkersofthecurrentage.Eachvol- umeconsistsofnewlycommissionedessaysthatcovermajorcontributionsof apreeminentphilosopherinasystematicandaccessiblemanner.Comparable inscopeandrationaletothehighlysuccessfulseriesCambridgeCompanions to Philosophy, the volumes do not presuppose that readers are already inti- matelyfamiliarwiththedetailsofeachphilosopher’swork.Theythuscombine expositionandcriticalanalysisinamannerthatwillappealtostudentsofphi- losophy and to professionals as well as to students across the humanities and socialsciences. forthcoming volumes: PaulChurchlandeditedbyBrianKeeley RonaldDworkineditedbyArthurRipstein JerryFodoreditedbyTimCrane SaulKripkeeditedbyAlanBerger DavidLewiseditedbyTheodoreSiderandDeanZimmermann BernardWilliamseditedbyAlanThomas published volumes: StanleyCavelleditedbyRichardEldridge DonaldDavidsoneditedbyKirkLudwig DanielDennetteditedbyAndrewBrookandDonRoss ThomasKuhneditedbyThomasNickles AlasdairMacIntyreeditedbyMarkMurphy RichardRortyeditedbyCharlesGuignonandDavidHiley JohnSearleeditedbyBarrySmith CharlesTayloreditedbyRuthAbbey Hilary Putnam Edited by YEMIMA BEN-MENAHEM TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521813112 © Cambridge University Press 2005 This book is in copyright. 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Contents List of Contributors page ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction 1 yemimaben-menahem 2 Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”: Externalism in Historical Context 17 julietfloyd 3 The Face of Perception 53 charlestravis 4 Realism, Beyond Miracles 83 axelmuellerandarthurfine 5 Putnam on Skepticism 125 yemimaben-menahem 6 The Tale of Quantum Logic 156 timmaudlin 7 Another Philosopher Looks at Quantum Mechanics, or What Quantum Theory Is Not 188 nancycartwright 8 Structural Realism and Contextual Individuality 203 johnstachel 9 The Rise and Fall of Computational Functionalism 220 oronshagrir 10 The Pragmatic Turn: The Entanglement of Fact and Value 251 richardj.bernstein Index 267 vii Contributors yemima ben-menahem is a member of the Department of Philosophy at theHebrewUniversityofJerusalem.Inherpublicationsshehasaddressed a range of classic problems in the philosophy of science, including expla- nation, causality, and realism. Her Conventionalism is forthcoming from CambridgeUniversityPress. richardj.bernsteinisVeraListProfessorofPhilosophyanddeanofthe graduatefacultyatNewSchoolUniversityinNewYorkCity.Hehaswritten widely on political theory, American pragmatism, and critical theory. His books include Praxis and Action (1971), Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science,HermeneuticsandPraxis(1983),FreudandtheVexedLegacyofMoses (1998),andRadicalEvil:APhilosophicalInterrogation(2002). nancy cartwright is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy,LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,andchair of the London School of Economics Centre for Philosophy of Natural andSocialScience.SheisalsoaprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversity ofCalifornia,SanDiego.AmongherbooksareHowtheLawsofPhysicsLie (1983),Nature’sCapacitiesandTheirMeasurement(1989),TheDappledWorld: AStudyoftheBoundariesofScience(1999),andMeasuringCauses:Invariance, ModularityandtheCausalMarkovCondition(2000). arthurfineisaprofessorofphilosophyandadjunctprofessorofphysics attheUniversityofWashington.HehasservedaspresidentofthePhilos- ophy of Science Association and of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. His works in the philosophy of science focus, inparticular,onthefoundationsoftwentieth-centuryphysicsandinclude, among others, The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism and the Quantum Theory (1986;2ded.1996). juliet floyd is an associate professor of philosophy at Boston Univer- sity. She has published on Kant, Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of ix
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