He argued that thickness of terms like courage precludes distinction between the normative and descriptive, while apathy is a counterexample, in his The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy.
This thinker includes essays entitled "I Thought of what I called an Automatic Sweetheart" and "The Importance of Being Austin: The Need for a Second Naivete" in his book The Threefold Cord, while he discusses the "softness of social facts" in his lectures Meaning and the Moral Sciences. He argued that thickness of terms like courage precludes distinction between the normative and descriptive, while apathy is a counterexample, in his The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy. John Haldane argued that "support of a metaphysical skull" is implied by one of this thinker's title ideas, Realism with a Human Face. He began to turn away from functionalism with his "Representation and Reality," but is more famous for ►attempting to refute skepticism by embracing externalism in considering the thoughts of a brain in a vat. FTP, name this philosopher who posited an alien planet without a concept of water in the Twin Earth experiment.
This thinker includes essays entitled "I Thought of what I called an Automatic Sweetheart" and "The Importance of Being Austin: The Need for a Second Naivete" in his book The Threefold Cord, while he discusses the "softness of social facts" in his lectures Meaning and the Moral Sciences.
Hilary Putnam