Hilary Putnam e "Aristotele dopo Wittgenstein"

• Autores: Enrico Berti
• Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 41, Nº. 2 (Novecento greco: Socrate, Platone, Aristotele), 2019, págs. 517-524
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The article shows how Putnam at first attributed to Aristotle a type of functionalism and later a true hylomorphism, considering this latter theory the better solution to the Mind-Body Problem. In particular, in his book Words and Life (1994), Putnam declared that the Aristotelian notion of metaphysical form explains human knowledge better than the notion of “logical form” proposed by Wittgenstein. More recently, in his book Philosophy in the Age of Science (2012), Putnam criticizes the causal theory of reference attributed to Aristotle by Victor Caston. The article then replies to some criticisms addressed by Putnam to Aristotle and proposes a new interpretation of the verb noein used by Aristotle.