Hilary Putnam
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of California, Los AngelesCentral High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Hans Reichenbach
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jerry Fodor📖 Elliott Sober
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-func…"
"It was Rudolf Carnap’s dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project."
"What we are left with, if what I have said so far is right, is a conclusion that I initially found very distressing: either GRW or some successor, or else Bohm or some successor, is the correct interp…"
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1926
Born
Birth2016
Died
Death
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