Putnam's natural realism and the question of a perceptual interface

Philosophical Explorations 7 (2):167-181 (2004)
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In his Dewey Lectures,1 Hilary Putnam argues that contemporary philosophy cannot solve nor see its way past the traditional problem of how language or thought hooks on to.

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