The Threefold Cord

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Summary: A splendid synthesis of Putnam's work
Review: This book -- comprising Putnam's Dewey Lectures at Columbia University, and his Royce Lectures given at Brown -- is a tremendously engaging tour d'horizon of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind. Putnam, at the top of his profession for over three decades, remains a powerful and acute thinker, and 'The Threefold Cord' is full of insightful observations, and clear arguments, displaying the growing influence on Putnam's work of both the American Pragmatists, and of the later Wittgenstein.