Rationality, Truth, and History -- A Series of Translations of Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy

Author: (American) Putnam, by Tong Shijun, Li Guangcheng translated
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Hillary Putnam is a renowned contemporary American philosopher, and "Rationality, Truth, and History" is one of his representative works. Since its publication in 1981, the book has quickly gained the status of a contemporary classic within a few short years, and the American Philosophical Association once held a special symposium on it. Putnam comprehensively and thoroughly grasps the major issues and currents of contemporary philosophy. In this book, he provides in-depth yet accessible explanations of a wide range of philosophical problems that affect numerous branches of philosophy, such as the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of mind. He particularly offers unique insights into the nature of truth, rationality, and history, aiming to break free from a series of long-standing dichotomous ways of thinking that dominate both philosophers and ordinary people, as well as to overcome the series of oppositions between subjectivity and objectivity, facts and values, and dogmatism and relativism.