Hi Matt, On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Matt Kundert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve said: > This is why Putnam and Davidson never wanted to call > themselves pragmatists. Knowledge as justified true belief > is then reduced to justified belief. Putnam thought that > this theory of truth is essential to pragmatism and didn't > consider himself or Rorty as pragmatists for this reason. His > complaint that Rorty was not really a pragmatist was a > criticism of pragmatism as Putnam understood it and not a > criticism of Rorty (though he also had some criticisms to > level against Rortianism as well). > > Matt: > You mean just Davidson above. Putnam did consider himself > a pragmatist, and the above is what Davidson thought of > pragmatism.
I'm basing my claim about Putnam on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlrEbffVVjM At 3:40 Putnam says, "I don't call myself a pragmatist. For one thing, I don't like the pragmatist's theory of truth which they were too proud of." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
