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Yemima Ben-Menahem
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Barbara Druss Dibner Professor of the History of Science Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of Conventionalism and others.

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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a leading American philosopher who made major contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of logic. He is best known for his semantic externalism,…
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Publications (1)
Conventionalism: From Poincare to Quine
Conventionalism: From Poincare to Quine (April 2006)
By Yemima Ben-Menahem
The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This book provides a comprehensive study of Conventionalism. Drawing a distinction between two conventionalist theses, the under-determination of science by empirical fact, and the linguistic account of necessity, Yemima Ben-Menahem traces the evolution of...
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