The Philosophy Department and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to a public
lecture by
Hilary Putnam (Harvard University)
Friday, 9. May, 5.00 PM - Popper Room
"Ethics Without Metaphysics"
Chair: Howard Robinson, CEU Philosophy Department
Hilary Putnam, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, surveys an
astonishingly wide range of issues and proposes a new, clear-cut approach to philosophical
questions -- a renewal of philosophy. He contests the view that only science offers an
appropriate model for philosophical inquiry. His discussion of topics from artificial
intelligence to natural selection, and of reductive philosophical views derived from these
models, identifies the insuperable problems encountered when philosophy ignores the
normative or attempts to reduce it to something else.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
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