Philosophy as Dialogue

Editors’ Introduction. Hilary Putnam: Dialogical Philosopher
I. Language and Logic
- Language, Meaning, and Reference
  - 1. Wilfrid Sellars: On Meaning and Rules (1974)
  - 2. Gareth Evans: On Reference (1983)
  - 3. Noam Chomsky: Scientism and Explaining Language (1993)
  - 4. Akeel Bilgrami: On Meaning and Belief (1993)
  - 5. Axel Mueller: On Quine and Putnam on Analyticity (2013)
  - 6. Tyler Burge: On Thought and Language (2015)
- Logic
  - 7. George Boolos: On Logical Truths (1994)
  - 8. Charles Travis: On Mind-Independence and Quantum Logic (2001, 2002)
II. Realism and Antirealism
- Conceptual Relativity
  - 9. Donald Davidson: On Conceptual Relativism (1987)
  - 10. Jennifer Case: On Conceptual Pluralism and Conceptual Relativity (2001)
- Internal Realism
  - 11. David L. Anderson: On Internal Realism (1993)
  - 12. Richard W. Miller: On Perception and Internal Realism (1993)
  - 13. Simon Blackburn: On Internal Realism (1994)
  - 14. Michael Dummett: On Realism and Idealism (1994)
- Empiricism and Philosophy of Science
  - 15. Ian Hacking: On Philosophy of Science (1984)
  - 16. Rudolph Carnap (Thomas Ricketts): On Empiricism and Conventionalism (1994)
  - 17. David Albert: On Quantum Mechanics (2013)
- Philosophy of Perception
  - 18. Ned Block: On the Qualitative Character of Experience (2013)
  - 19. John McDowell: On Perception (2013)
III. Pragmatism and Skepticism
- Pragmatism
  - 20. Cornel West: On Deweyan and Prophetic Pragmatism (2001)
  - 21. Robert Brandom: On Pragmatism (2002)
  - 22. Ruth Anna Putnam: On Pragmatism (2013)
- Skepticism and Relativism
  - 23. Crispin Wright: On the Brain-in-a-Vat (1994)
  - 24. Joseph Margolis: On Relativism and Pluralism (2006)
IV. Morality, Politics, and Religion
- Moral Philosophy
  - 25. Martha Nussbaum: On Moral Rules and The Golden Bowl (1983)
  - 26. David Wiggins: On Semantic Externalism (1994)
  - 27. Jürgen Habermas: On Moral Philosophy (2002)
  - 28. David Copp: On Morality and Mathematics (2006)
  - 29. Mark Timmons: On Morality (2006)
- Philosophy of Politics and Religion
  - 30. Elizabeth Anscombe and Cora Diamond: On Religion (1997)
  - 31. Richard Rorty: On Political Hope (1998)
  - 32. Franz Rosenzweig: On Religion (2016)
V. Putnam’s Philosophical Forbears
- Textual Interpretation
  - 33. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Juliet Floyd): On the Tractatus (1998)
  - 34. Burton Dreben: On Quine and Wittgenstein (2000)
  - 35. W. V. O. Quine: On Quine’s Radicality (2002)
- Major Philosophical Influences
  - 36. 12 Philosophers—and Their Influence on Me (2008)
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Hilary Putnam

Edited by Mario De Caro

David Macarthur

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