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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812736403321

Autore

Putnam Hilary

Titolo

Ethics without ontology / / Hilary Putnam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-26651-X

0-674-04239-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Ethics

Ontology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-151) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Ethics without Ontology -- LECTURE 1 Ethics without Metaphysics -- LECTURE 2 A Defense of Conceptual Relativity -- LECTURE 3 Objectivity without Objects -- LECTURE 4 “Ontology”: An Obituary -- PART II Enlightenment and Pragmatism -- LECTURE 1 The Three Enlightenments -- LECTURE 2 Skepticism about Enlightenment -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgements can properly be considered objective - a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century.