Ethics Without Ontology

Ethics Without Ontology
ISBN-10
0674013107
ISBN-13
9780674013100
Category
Medical
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Authors
Hilary Whitehall Putnam, Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus Hilary Putnam

Description

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. 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.

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