Putnam, Hilary

Oppenheim, Paul and Putnam, Hilary. Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2. Ed. by H. Feigl, M. Scriven and G. Maxwell. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1958.3-31. 

Putnam, Hilary. Beyond the Fact/Value Dichotomy. In Realism with a Human Face, 135-141. 

Putnam, Hilary. 1975a. Mind, Language, and Reality. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Putnam, Hilary. 1967. Psychological predicates. In Art, mind, and religion, ed. D.D. Merrill and W.H. Capitan, 37-48. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press. 

The purpose of the book is to develop internal realism, the metaphysical-epistemological doctrine initiated by Hilary Putnam (Reason, Truth and History, Introduction , Many Faces). In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme. I shall use the notion in a somewhat idiosyncratic way, which, however, has some affinities with the ways the notion has been used during its history. So I shall start by sketching the history of the notion. This will provide some background, and it will also give opportunity to raise some of the most important problems I will have to solve in the later chapters. 

Form of Information in Science. Analysis of an Immunology Sublanguage. With a Preface by Hilary Putnam. 1989 ISBN 90-277-2516-0... 

Block, N. (1990). Can the mind change the world In G. Boolos, ed.. Meaning and Method Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam. Cambridge University Press. 

Oppenheim, Paul, and Hilary Putnam. 1958. The unity of science as a working hypothesis. In Concepts, theories, and the mind-body problem, ed. Grover Maxwell, Herbert FeigJ, and Michael Scriven, 3-36. Minneapolis Minnesota University Press. 

A more explicitly mereological account of reduction is offered by Paul Oppen-heim and Hilary Putnam [Oppenheim and Putnam, 1958], who argue that the explanation of the properties of complex systems in terms of the properties of and relations between their parts (microreduction) is a characteristic and fruitful scientific project. Microreduction is mereological because theory T microreduces a theory T2 when the phenomena explained by T2 are explained by Ti, and Ti... 

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