Putnam’s Happy Ending? Pragmatism and the Realism Debates, by Philip Kitcher
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Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent book (with Evelyn Fox Keller) is The Seasons Alter: How to Save our Planet in Six Acts (W.W. Norton, 2017). Among his other recent works are Life After Faith: The Case for
Secular Humanism (Yale University Press, 2014); Deaths in Venice: The Case of Gustav von Aschenbach (Columbia University Press, 2013); and Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Philip Kitcher, “Putnam’s Happy Ending? Pragmatism and the Realism Debates,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38:2 (2017), pp. 431-42.