Hilary Putnam

While Hilary Putnam's work on theories of meaning, semantic content, the nature of mental phenomena, interpretations of quantum mechanics, theory-change, logic, and mathematics is crucial to recent and future developments in philosophy, the scope and volume of his writings and his radical re-thinking of concepts make it challenging to portray his philosophy accurately. Maximilian de Gaynesford analyses Putnman's complete works within their historical context. He argues that the work has a basic unity based on repeated engagement with a small set of hard problems and that understanding this unity helps make this influential philosopher accessible.de Gaynesford, Maximilian is the author of 'Hilary Putnam', published 2006 under ISBN 9780773530874 and ISBN 0773530878.