Description: Ethics without Ontology by Hilary Putnam Paperback In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Hilary Putnam's central concern is ontology--indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's influence on analytic philosophy--in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments--Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology. He argues persuasively that the attempt to provide an ontological explanation of the objectivity of either mathematics or ethics is, in fact, an attempt to provide justifications that are extraneous to mathematics and ethics--and is thus deeply misguided. BIN E
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Book Title: Ethics Without Ontology
Subject: Ethics, Mathematics
Item Length: 7.8in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Hilary Putnam
Publication Name: Ethics Without Ontology
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
