The Threefold Cord Softcover - 2001
by Hilary Putnam
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- Title The Threefold Cord
- Author Hilary Putnam
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, -
- Date March 15, 2001
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 001-685
- ISBN 9780231102872 / 0231102879
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.52 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038458
- Dewey Decimal Code 128.2
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The second part of the book explores the mind-body question: Is the mind independent of our interactions with the physical world? Again, Putnam critically assesses two sharply antithetical contemporary approaches and finds them both lacking. The Threefold Cord shows the entire mind-body debate to be miscast and draws on the later work of Wittgenstein, once more advancing original views on perception and thought and their relationship with both the body and the external world. Finally, Putnam takes up two related problems -- the role of causality in human behavior and whether or not thoughts and sensations have an "existence" all their own.
With Putnam's lucid prose and insightful examples, The Threefold Cord loosens the Gordian knot into which philosophy has bound itself over the issue of epistemology.