Hilary Putnam
American philosopher and mathematician
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,... Wikipedia
Born: July 31, 1926, Chicago, IL
Died: March 13, 2016 (age 89 years), Arlington, MA
Influenced by: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Van Orman Quine, Immanuel Kant, and more
Influenced: Donald Davidson, Jerry Fodor, David K. Lewis, and more
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (1951), Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and more
Awards: Rolf Schock Prizes (2011) and Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy (2015)
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