Putnam e la critica dell’epistemologia contemporanea: spunti pragmatisti

The article aims at deepening and making explicit the influence of pragmatism on the thought of\r\nHilary Putnam, moving from the analysis of some of his earlier writings, in which the reference\r\nto pragmatism was still very much implicit. In particular, although focused on the classical\r\nneopositivist questions of the philosophy of science on which Putnam has been trained, the\r\nessays What Theories Are Not (1962) and The “Corroboration” of Theories (1974) betray some\r\noriginal pragmatist options already. The article will review the pragmatist undertones in\r\nPutnam’s criticism of contemporary epistemology in order to test its promises.