Ethics without Ontology / / Hilary Putnam.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Putnam, Hilary,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Ano de Publicação: 2021
• Idioma: English
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I. Ethics without Ontology --; LECTURE 1 Ethics without Metaphysics --; LECTURE 2 A Defense of Conceptual Relativity --; LECTURE 3 Objectivity without Objects --; LECTURE 4 “Ontology”: An Obituary --; PART II Enlightenment and Pragmatism --; LECTURE 1 The Three Enlightenments --; LECTURE 2 Skepticism about Enlightenment --; Notes --; Index
• Resumo: In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's influence on analytic philosophy--in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments--Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology.
• Formato: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674042391; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674042391?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hilary Putnam.

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's...