Description
Product ID: | 9780231102872 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy |
Title: | The Threefold Cord |
Subtitle: | Mind, Body, and World |
Authors: | Author: Hilary Putnam |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy, from c 1900 -, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of mind |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Offers solutions to some of philosophy's vexing problems. This book examines the problem of realism: Is objective truth possible? It acknowledges the impasse between empirical and idealist approaches to this question, critiquing them both, however, by highlighting the false assumption they share, that we cannot perceive the world directly. |
Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-04-05 |