Hilary Putnam: A Philosopher without Adjectives
Part 1 Language, Mind, Knowledge, and Metaphysics
1 Hilary Putnam: Thought on Thought Charles Travis
2 Putnam, Privileged Observers, and Special Relativity James Van Cleve
3 On the Anti-Functionalist Arguments of Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam Jeff Buechner
4 Metaphysical Realism and Semantic Externalism Jonathan Knowles
5 Contextual Assumptions and Interests in Ontology: Putnam’s Legacy in Recent Applications Paolo Valore
6 Putnam on Sellars’ Manifest and Scientific Images of the World James O’Shea
7 Putnam and Wittgenstein on Radical Scepticism Duncan Pritchard
Part 2 The Pragmatist Heritage
8 Hilary Putnam and the Trajectory of Classical Pragmatism Elijah Millgram
9 Putnam’s Nuanced Pragmatism: Realism, Perception, and Truth Michela Bella
10 The Representationalist and the Anti-Representationalist Massimo Dell’Utri
11 Enlightenment: Putnam’s Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking Diana Heney
12 The Putnam-Rorty Debate and Insurrectionist Ethics Chris Voparil
Part 3 Ethics and Politics
13 Putnam on ‘The Last Dogma of Empiricism’: From Auto da Fé to Epistemic Disobedience? Paul Giladi
14 Hilary Putnam and the Epistemology of Democracy David Rondel
15 Philosophy of Religion as a Humanistic Discipline: Reflections Inspired by Hilary Putnam Sami Pihlström
16 Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Philosophy: Hilary Putnam, Philosophy, and Jewish Philosophy Claire Elise Katz
Biography
Roberto Gronda is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa, Italy. He has published extensively on the pragmatist philosophy of science and on the philosophy of scientific expertise. He is the author of Dewey’s Philosophy of Science (2020). He is the coeditor, with Marianne Janack and Giancarlo Marchetti of Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge 2026)
Giancarlo Marchetti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Perugia, Italy. His research interests include American philosophy, pragmatism, and neopragmatism. He is the editor of The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty (Routledge, 2021) and co-editor, with Sarin Marchetti, of Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity (Routledge, 2016), and the coeditor, with Roberto Gronda e Marianne Janack of Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge 2026).
