Download or read book Ethics without Ontology written by Hilary PUTNAM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology's influence on analytic philosophy--in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments--Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology.