Hilary Putnam's book, Ethics without Ontology, is written with all his usual clarity and verve. It crystallises some familiar themes of his work in very readable form.
   --Christopher Cordner, Philosophical Investigations

Putnam provokes us in just the way philosophy should...[He] does not offer a fine-tuning of a particular approach to specific theories. He provocatively heralds a new enlightenment in such a way that will doubtless spark criticisms from those who denounce any further enlightenment in favor of skeptical outlooks. Putnam has presented a viable alternative to the two dominant, though well-worn, philosophical movements of our day.
   --Eric Thomas Weber, Journal of Value Inquiry

Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished living American philosophers, a philosopher whose writings have done much to shape the agenda of analytic philosophy over the last forty years. Much of the interest of this book lies in the way that it illustrates, with unmistakable clarity, how severe a critic of mainstream analytic philosophy Putnam has become.
   --Michael Williams, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.

Read More by Hilary Putnam:

• Renewing Philosophy
• Realism with a Human Face
• Words and Life
• Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition
• Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898
• The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
• James and Royce Reconsidered: Reflections on the Centenary of <i>Pragmatism</i>