Ethics without ontology / Hilary Putnam.

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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245 1 0 |a Ethics without ontology /  |c Hilary Putnam. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b Harvard University Press,  |c 2004. 
300 |a ix, 160 p. ;  |c 21 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-151) and index. 
505 0 0 |g Pt. I.  |t Ethics without Ontology --  |g Lecture 1.  |t Ethics without Metaphysics --  |g Lecture 2.  |t A Defense of Conceptual Relativity --  |g Lecture 3.  |t Objectivity without Objects --  |g Lecture 4.  |t "Ontology": An Obituary --  |g Pt. II.  |t Enlightenment and Pragmatism --  |g Lecture 1.  |t The Three Enlightenments --  |g Lecture 2.  |t Skepticism about Enlightenment. 
520 1 |a "Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. 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 thus is deeply misguided."--BOOK JACKET. 
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650 0 |a Ontology. 
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