Hilary Putnam (Chicago, 1926 – Boston, 2016)

REPLY TO STEPHEN WHITE hilary putnaM

W i responded to stephen White’s deep and elegant lecture in rome, i said that i agreed with his transcendental argument and i do. it is a profound contribution to the discussion of the epistemology and phenomenology of perception. and apart from one minor textual issue having to do with William James,1 was so convinced by that lecture that i had no criticism to voice. But on a subsequent close...

Hilary Putnam And Immanuel Kant: Two 'Internal Realists'?

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...

E Pluribus Putnams Unum: Hilary Putnam and the Indispensability Argument

In this paper, I argue that the indispensability argument unifies all of Hilary Putnam’s diverse work in the philosophy of mathematics. I also argue that his version of the indispensability argument does not justify knowledge of mathematical objects. I first characterize indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics, distilling them to four essential characteristics. I show that t...

Boston Hospitality Review: Winter 2016

1926-2016: 90 Years of listeriology.

ISOPOL - for "International Symposium on Problems of Listeria and Listeriosis" - meetings gather every three years since 1957 participants from all over the world and allow exchange and update on a wide array of topics concerning Listeria and listeriosis, ranging from epidemiology, diagnostic and typing methods, to genomics, post-genomics, fundamental microbiology, cell biology and pathogenesis...