Putnam’s Natural Realism and Its Problems

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Tadeusz Szubka
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Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) was prone to change his mind on variety of philosophical issues and almost constantly to modify his views. The last period of the development of his philosophy is known as the phase of commonsense or natural realism, eloquently presented in his 1994 Dewey Lectures. This paper is focused on three facets of his position and tries to identify three difficulties it encounters. Firstly, Putnam claims that in the contemporary realism debate we have, on the one hand, proponents of extravagant metaphysical realism, and, on the other hand, advocates of various versions of irresponsible antirealism. Unfortunately, the delineation of the debate is too coarse-grained, since there are many forms of metaphysical realism, and lumping together various antirealisms is confusing and unhelpful. Secondly, Putnam’s naïve direct realism in the philosophy of perception seems incompatible with his transactional account of perception. Thirdly, for some time Putnam was under a spell of Wittgensteinian quietism that distorted the true character of his philosophical ideas.
普特南的自然现实主义及其问题
希拉里-普特南(Hilary Putnam,1926-2016 年)很容易在各种哲学问题上改变主意,几乎不断地修改自己的观点。他哲学发展的最后一个阶段被称为常识或自然现实主义阶段,他在 1994 年的《杜威演讲》中雄辩地阐述了这一阶段。本文主要从三个方面论述他的立场,并试图找出其遇到的三个难题。首先,普特南声称,在当代现实主义争论中,我们一方面有奢侈的形而上学现实主义的支持者,另一方面也有各种版本的不负责任的反现实主义的倡导者。遗憾的是,对这场争论的划分过于粗略,因为形而上学现实主义有多种形式,把各种反现实主义混为一谈会造成混淆,于事无补。其次,普特南在知觉哲学中的天真直接现实主义似乎与他关于知觉的交易论述不相容。第三,普特南一度被维特根斯坦式的静默主义所迷惑,扭曲了其哲学思想的真实特征。
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Roczniki Filozoficzne Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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期刊介绍: Annals of Philosophy is one of the oldest philosophical journals in Poland (since 1948). It is published four times per year in both the online and traditional ways. The journal aims to publish the best original research papers in philosophy, as well as translations, reviews, accounts and polemics.
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