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  1. Ruth Anna Putnam (born Ruth Anna Jacobs; 20 September 1927 – 4 May 2019) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College.

  2. Professor Emerita of Philosophy. Ruth Anna Putnam passed away on May 4th, 2019 after being with the Philosophy Department for 35 years. Professor Putnam served as chair of the Department 1979-1982 and 1990-1993. In 1998, she became Professor Emerita after inspiring students for decades.

  3. Ruth Anna passed away peacefully at home in Arlington, Mass., on May 4, surrounded by all four of her children. Ruth Anna died of complications of Parkinson’s disease, an illness that she endured with the same courage, strength, perspective, and humility with which she lived her 91-year life.

  4. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. In this new collection, he and Ruth Anna Putnam argue that key elements of the classical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey provide a framework for the most progressive and forward-looking forms of philosophy in contemporary thought.

  5. 12 de out. de 2018 · As Ruth Anna Putnam argues in ‘Reflections on the Future of Pragmatism’, when the pragmatists apply the agent’s viewpoint to metaphysical disagreements, they see those disagreements as differences in conduct that each position would produce if believed; so, a choice of metaphysics is simultaneously a moral choice (113).

    • Elizabeth F Cooke
    • 2018
  6. 20 de dez. de 2004 · American philosopher Ruth Anna Putnam discusses her experience with her adult bat mitzvah in this interview. She shares her memories of Kristallnacht and the fear she and her Jewish friends experienced living in Germany during Nazi rule. Her parents eventually left Germany for America, and in 1948 at the age of twenty-one, she joined ...

  7. In meta-ethics I defend a non-cognitivist position and so Ruth Anna Putnam's moderate anti-realism puts her as more realist than I am in ethics and as less realist in metaphysics. Consider her discussion, early in 'Perceiving Facts and Values', of William James' poignant thought experiment of a case where we