On Putnam’s Philosophy Roberto Gronda and Giancarlo Marchetti

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 Vatore

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 Fe to Epistemic Disobedience? Paul Giladi

14 Hilary Putnam and the Epistemology of Democracy David Rondel

15 Philosophy of Religion as a Humanistic Discipline Sami Pihlstrom

16 Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Philosophy: Hilary Putnam, Philosophy, and Jewish Philosophy Claire Elise Katz