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Ethics without Ontology

by Hilary Putnam

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 12.9 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm

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Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the 20th Century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. 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 judgements - Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology. He argues persuasively that the attempt to provide an ontological explanation of the objectivity of either mathematics or ethics is, in fact, an attempt to provide justifications that are extraneous to mathematics and ethics - and is thus deeply misguided.
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  • Author

    Hilary Putnam

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    November 2005

  • Weight

    196g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    12.9 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674018518

  • ISBN-10

    0674018516

  • Eden Code

    4577681

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