The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam

Randall E. Auxier, Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers from 2001 to 2013, is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and General Editor of The Works of Josiah Royce. He is author of Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce (2013). He edited Responses to Royce (2000) and has co-edited many volumes including The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto (2013) and The Philosophy of Richard Rorty.Douglas R. Anderson is Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is author of Philosophy and Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture (2006) and Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce (1995). He is the former editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy and the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.The late Lewis Edwin Hahn was Editor of the Library of Living Philosophers from 1981 to 2001. As Paul Schilpp's successor he edited three LLP volumes with Dr. Schilpp and eight volumes as sole editor, then conceived, planned, and began the creation of seven more volumes. He authored A Contextualistic Theory of Perception (1942), Value: A Co-operative Inquiry (with John Dewey and others, 1949), and A Contextualistic World View (2001). Dr. Hahn co-edited The Early Works of John Dewey, 1882-1898 (1967-1972) and wrote numerous articles for scholarly journals and collections.