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Delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 30, 1981. This was the second of two Howison Lectures on ‘The Transcendence of Reason’. The first one has appeared in Synthese 51 (1982), 141–167.

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Putnam, H. Why reason can't be naturalized. Synthese 52, 3–23 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485252

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