The Threefold Cord by Hilary Putnam
Mind, Body, and World
A connected series of essays exploring how questions about mind, body, and the nature of reality are intertwined, arguing against simple reductionisms and rigid metaphysical doctrines and for a pragmatic, pluralistic approach in which mental states, scientific descriptions, and conceptual schemes mutually inform one another; the work surveys issues in philosophy of mind, language, and science and stresses that careful attention to both empirical findings and ordinary conceptual practices yields a more nuanced account of meaning, consciousness, and realism.
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- 1999
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