Putnam has in mind the difference between respecting science and accepting materialist ideology. Specifically, he argues against metaphysical realism, the fact/value and fact/convention dichotomies, and reducing intentionality to physics or regarding it as a mere illusion, and for the connection between truth and justification...Putnam writes with his usual clarity and vigor.
   --Robert Hoffman, Library Journal

Putnam is one of the foremost philosophers writing today and this volume collects many of his forays in current philosophical discourse.
   --Reader's Review

The book strikes one...as fresh and exciting. This is undoubtedly due to its highly critical approach to current analytical philosophy. Analytical philosophy seems recently to have been overcome by the need to reflect on and challenge its past. Putnam has earned the right to hit out at that past if anyone has.
   --Max de Gaynesford, Radical Philosophy

Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.

James Conant is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities University of Chicago.

Read More by Hilary Putnam:

• Renewing Philosophy
• Realism with a Human Face
• 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
• Ethics without Ontology
• James and Royce Reconsidered: Reflections on the Centenary of <i>Pragmatism</i>

Read More by James Conant:

• Realism with a Human Face