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Hilary Whitehall Putnam ( / ˈpʌtnəm /; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) 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 ...
Hilary Putnam was a leading American philosopher who made major contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of logic.
Hilary Putnam (born 1926) is a Harvard-based philosopher whose work has ranged widely over topics in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive psychology, philosophy of science, language, logic and mathematics.
Mar 18, 2016 · Hilary Putnam, a Harvard philosopher whose influence ranged widely across many fields of thought, including mathematical logic, philosophy of mind and language, epistemology and metaphysics, died...
Hilary Whitehall Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time, died on 13th March 2016, in his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Hilary Putnam - Philosophy, Mind, Logic: Another area in which Putnam’s contributions have had enormous impact is the philosophy of mind, where he introduced the doctrine known as functionalism (sometimes referred to as “machine functionalism”), which attempts to define mental states in terms of their functional (or causal) roles relative ...
Hilary Putnam - Varieties, Realism, Philosophy: Beginning in the mid-1970s, Putnam sought to distinguish his understanding of realism from what he now called “metaphysical realism.”
Nov 8, 2023 · Hilary Putnam’s influence on analytic philosophy was and remains enormous, ranging widely across fields including mathematical logic, philosophy of science and mathematics, philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
Mar 26, 2016 · Hilary Putnam, a philosopher, died on March 13th, aged 89. Mar 26th 2016. TO BE identified with a distinctive position is an academic career’s crowning achievement. Hilary Putnam did better...
Jan 8, 2010 · Hilary Putnam is the father of computational functionalism, a doctrine he developed in a series of papers beginning with “Minds and Machines” (1960) and culminating in “The Nature of Mental States” (1967b).
