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Licensed Unlicensed Requires Authentication Published by Edinburgh University Press 2003

5. Hilary Putnam . . . against Popper

From the book Simply Philosophy

  • Brendan Wilson
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473613-006
© 2022, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
Simply Philosophy
Simply Philosophy

Chapters in this book (74)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Area 1: Science
1. Aristotle . . . on scientific knowledge
2. Francis Bacon . . . on scientific method
3. David Hume . . . on the concept of a cause
4. Karl Popper . . . on induction
5. Hilary Putnam . . . against Popper
6. Paul Feyerabend. . . on scientific method
Overview of Area 1
Area 2: Mind
7. B. F. Skinner . . . on behaviourism
8. C. S. Peirce . . . on reality and truth
9. Bertrand Russell. . . on sense-data
10. Rudolf Carnap. . . on the argument from analogy
11. A. J. Ayer . . . on other minds
12. Norman Malcolm . . . on other minds
13. Colin McGinn . . . on the mind/body problem
14. William James . . . on the reality of the mind
15. Paul Churchland . . . on the unreality of thoughts
Overview of Area 2
Area 3: Freedom
16. Peter Strawson . . . on determinism
17. Norman Malcolm . . . on determinism
18. Daniel Dennett. . . on determinism
19. Max Black. . . on causality
20. Frederick Dretske . . . on the reality of meaning
21. Thomas Hobbes . . . on human nature
22. Immanuel Kant. . . on duty
23. Jeremy Bentham . . . on utilitarianism
24. Thomas Nagel. . . against utilitarianism
25. G. E. M. Anscombe . . . on ‘ought’ and ‘should’
Overview of Area 3
Area 4: Knowledge
26. Galileo Galilei. . . on perception
27. Rene Descartes . . . on doubt
28. John Locke . . . on knowledge
29. Hilary Putnam/Noam Chomsky. . . on innate ideas
30. George Berkeley. . . on Idealism
31. Thomas Reid . . . against scepticism
32. Immanuel Kant. . . on causality
33. David Hume . . . on miracles
34. Bertrand Russell. . . on knowledge
35. L. Jonathan Cohen . . . on empiricism
Overview of Area 4
Area 5: Language
36. John Locke . . . on language
37. Gilbert Ryle . . . on Mill’s theory of names
38. Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . on proper names
39. Saul Kripke . . . on naming
40. Hilary Putnam . . . on language
41. W. V. Quine . . . on language
42. Plato . . . on universals
43. John Searle . . . on computer ‘understanding’
Overview of Area 5
Area 6: Objectivity
44. Roderick Chisholm . . . on perception
45. A. J. Ayer. . . on perception
46. Gilbert Ryle . . . on perception
47. Thomas Reid . . . on ideas
48. J. B. Watson . . . on behaviourism
49. Thomas Nagel. . . on qualia
50. J. J. C. Sm art. . . on mind/brain identity
51. Hilary Putnam . . . on functionalism
52. F. H. Bradley. . . on truth
53. Michael Dummett. . . on anti-realism
Overview of Area 6
Area 7: God
54. Norman Malcolm . . . on the ontological argument
55. Thomas Aquinas . . . on the existence of God
56. Anthony Kenny. . . on teleology and design
57. Anthony Flew. . . on religious belief
58. Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . on religious belief
59. Soren Kierkegaard . . . on the ‘absurdity’ of belief
60. W. H. Newton-Smith . . . on metaphysics in cosmology
Overview of Area 7
Further Reading
Glossary
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index
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