Juliet Floyd: Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”: Externalism in Historical Context
(published in Hilary Putnam / edited by Yemima Ben-Menahem, Cambridge University Press 2005)
Floyd’s paper begins with an overview of main characteristics of Putnam’s externalism which he offers in his “Meaning of ‘Meaning’”. She subsumes them under three major points:
Meaning “is object- or reality-involving”, in [...]
