The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World Paperback - 2001
by Hilary Putnam
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The besetting sin of philosophers seems to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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"One of the most exciting of contemporary philosophers" (Times Literary Supplement) illuminates and reconfigures a perennially intriguing problem: the relationship between our perceptions and reality. Putnam first examines the problem of realism: Is objective truth possible? He acknowledges the deep 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. Drawing on the work of J. L. Austin and William James, Putnam develops a subtle and creative alternative, which he calls "natural realism".
The second part of the book explores the mind-body question: Is the mind independent of our interactions with the physical world? Again, Putnam critically assesses two sharply antithetical contemporary approaches and finds them both lacking. The Threefold Cord shows the entire mind-body debate to be miscast and draws on the later work of Wittgenstein, once more advancing original views on perception and thought and their relationship with both the body and the external world. Finally, Putnam takes up two related problems -- the role of causality in human behavior and whether or not thoughts and sensations have an "existence" all their own.
With Putnam's lucid prose and insightful examples, The Threefold Cord loosens the Gordian knot into which philosophy has bound itself over the issue of epistemology.Details
- Title The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World
- Author Hilary Putnam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, -
- Date 2001-04-05
- ISBN 9780231102872 / 0231102879
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.52 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.32 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038458
- Dewey Decimal Code 128.2
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