Hilary Putnam Discussion - Knowledge, Language, & Mind

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年12月3日
A distinguished LSE panel discuss the life and work of the Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam. The panel includes Julian Baggini, Professor Jesper Kallestrup, Professor Chris Norris, Dr Sarah Sawyer, and Dr Peter Dennis as chair. Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. He made important contributions to philosophy of science, mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of language.
I quite like Putnam's book "Reason, Truth and History" which you can read online here: https://ia802606.us.archive.org/23/it...
This is from the London School of Economics and the Forum for European Philosophy. http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/eve...

Naïve Perception, Cartesian Skepticism, & Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments

source: Philosophical Overdose      2013年6月9日
Tim Button (Cambridge) gives a talk at a MCMP workshop on Putnam's Model-Theoretic Arguments (May 23, 2013) at the University of Munich. In this talk, Hilary Putnam's model-theoretic argument against metaphysical realism is discussed in connection to perception and philosophical skepticism (Cartesian versus Kantian skepticism). Putnam's model-theoretic argument tries to demonstrate that reference cannot be accounted for on the metaphysical realist's view. Metaphysical realism is the view that there's one true way the world is, and that truth involves a correspondence relation between our thoughts/language on the one hand and the external mind-independent reality on the other. The issue then is what this mirroring or correspondence relation is actually supposed to consist in. How can our thoughts and language hook onto the world at all? How can we avoid falling into the abyss of radical skepticism?
Credit to LMU Munich.

Hilary Putnam Interview on Philosophy of Science (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年11月9日
Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam discuss the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. An introductory overview is given of some of the conceptual issues which arise regarding the nature of knowledge and science including demarcation, methodology, foundations, as well as the notion of truth and objectivity, the fact-value dichotomy, inductive logic, reductionism, materialism, etc.
Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in logic, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and mathematics.

I recommend his book "Reason, Truth, and History" which can be found online here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
This interview is from a 1978 BBC program. Transcript/subtitles are available.

Putnam's Critique of the Fact/Value Dichotomy

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年7月31日
Professor Hilary Putnam gives a lecture titled "The fact/value dichotomy and its critics" at UCD in March 2007. The question "Is that supposed to be a fact or a value judgment?" is a familiar one that arises in everyday life. The presupposition seems to be that if something is a value judgment, then it cannot possibly be a statement of fact, and that value judgments are merely subjective. But is this right? Putnam attacks this dichotomy, arguing that we have no clear unproblematic notion of "fact", and that facts and values are essentially entangled with one another, even within science. He draws on the work of people like Quine with his attack on the analytic-synthetic distinction to help make his case. The fact-value dichotomy was crucial for the logical positivists and such emotivist approaches to ethics, making values and morals non-cognitive and outside the sphere of rationality altogether. Putnam argues that the dichotomy has also been culturally influential and has had an impact on society with various economic and social policies.
Hilary Putnam (1926-2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in many areas, including logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of science, and mathematics.
Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" is a great work and has a few chapters which deal with these issues on rationality and the fact-value dichotomy. The book can be found here: https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
http://www.ucd.ie/news/mar07/030507_P...

Interview with Hilary Putnam

source: Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies 2014年8月28日
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies arranged an interview with Hilary Putnam on April 21, 2010. The interview was conducted by Vadim Vasilyev and Dmitry Volkov.

Hilary Putnam -- "Naive Realism and Qualia"

source: MrDanyvgy    2012年5月22日
The 20th Anniversary of the Center for the Study of Rationality
Hilary Putnam -- "Naive Realism and Qualia"

Hilary Putnam on the Philosophy of Science (1977)

source: mehranshargh    2015年11月4日
In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam of Harvard examine current philosophical thought that dismisses the primacy and infallibility of mathematical logic and the scientific method. Modern thinkers, such as Einstein, are credited with introducing interpretive logic into their scientific theories.

The Fact/Value Dichotomy and its critics - Hilary Putnam

source: SonytoBratsoni    2012年5月20日
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions as to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. As a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position. Putnam is currently Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. (wikipedia)

Hilary Putnam Interview on Mind, Language, & Epistemology

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年4月7日
In this interview, Hilary Putnam discusses his work in philosophy on various issues regarding the nature of mind, language, existence, and knowledge, including consciousness and qualia, conceivability, skepticism and brains in a vat, semantic externalism, properties and natural kinds, intentionality, the twin earth thought experiment, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reference, and analytic philosophy itself.
I highly recommend Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" which can be found here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
Credit for this interview goes to Vadim Vasilyev and Dmitry Volkov from the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, who conducted this interview with Putnam in April 2010. More information can be found at www.hardproblem.ru

Hilary Putnam on Science & Externalism

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年6月18日
In this talk, Hilary Putnam discusses semantic externalism and related issues within the philosophy of science and epistemology.

Pragmatism & Its Founders (Hilary Putnam)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2013年6月16日
Hilary Putnam gives a talk at Boston College's Clough Center in April 2013. The views of Dewey, C.S. Peirce, and William James are discussed in relation to topics such as free will, the self, truth, meaning, belief, the fact-value dichotomy, and issues within the philosophy of science.

Hilary Putnam on Meaning & Semantic Externalism

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年3月25日
Hilary Putnam was awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2011 “for his contribution to the understanding of semantics for theoretical and ‘natural kind’ terms, and of the implications of this semantics for philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, and metaphysics“. In this talk, Putnam describes the path which led to the work for which he was being honored. Hilary Putnam (1926-2016) was an American philosopher and mathematician who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science.
Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History" can be found here: https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2016年7月17日
The Philosopher's Zone marks the passing of Hilary Putnam, who died earlier this year. Some of Putnam's key insights are introduced and discussed, including his idea of multiple realizability and functionalism in the philosophy of mind, brains in a vat and skepticism, semantic externalism, pragmatism, the fact-value dichotomy, and more.
Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of science, and mathematics.
I highly recommend Putnam's "Reason, Truth, and History", which can be found here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
Interview with Putnam on Philosophy of Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8kD...
Credit to Australia's ABC Radio National: The Philosopher's Zone with Joe Gelonesi and David Macarthur.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational