RIP Hilary Putnam. Icelandic Spar philosopher

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > ... in 1972. Simultaneously he was beginning to reject scientific 
realism, which claims that reality is independent of mind and language, 
and to develop his theory of semantic externalism, which argues that 
meaning is not a matter of subjective mind-set, nor of an objective 
match between word and object, but a social phenomenon ... <

That meaning is a social phenomenon was emphasized at the time by 
European thinkers, too. Confer, for example,  Deleuze's "Logique du 
sens" (1969), or Luhmann's "Sinn als Grundbegriff der Soziologie" 
(1971). It's probably not saying too much that the cultural changes of 
the 1960s played a role here.


On 14.03.2016 19:06, Mark Kohut wrote:
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/14/hilary-putnam-obituary?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

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