Hilary Putnam

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American philosopher analytic philosopher human philosopher

Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.

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instanceOf American philosopher ⓘ
analytic philosopher ⓘ
human ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ
academicDegree PhD ⓘ
awardReceived Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy ⓘ
Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy ⓘ
surface form: Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1926-07-31 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 2016-03-13 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor Hans Reichenbach ⓘ
Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ
educatedAt Harvard University ⓘ
University of Pennsylvania ⓘ
employer Harvard University ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ
University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ
familyName Putnam ⓘ
fieldOfWork Jewish philosophy ⓘ
epistemology ⓘ
ethics ⓘ
logic ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ
philosophy of language ⓘ
philosophy of mathematics ⓘ
philosophy of mind ⓘ
philosophy of science ⓘ
givenName Hilary ⓘ
language English ⓘ
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
American Philosophical Association ⓘ
notableIdea brain in a vat argument ⓘ
functionalism ⓘ
internal realism ⓘ
model-theoretic argument against metaphysical realism ⓘ
multiple realizability ⓘ
no miracles argument ⓘ
semantic externalism ⓘ
twin earth thought experiment ⓘ
notableWork Mind, Language and Reality ⓘ
Realism with a Human Face ⓘ
Reason, Truth and History ⓘ
Representation and Reality ⓘ
The Many Faces of Realism ⓘ
placeOfBirth City of Chicago ⓘ
surface form: Chicago
placeOfDeath Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form: Boston
religion Judaism ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
spouse Ruth Anna Putnam ⓘ

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Experience and Nature → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Herbert Feigl → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Kurt Gödel → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Nelson Goodman → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Rudolf Carnap → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Saul Kripke → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
subject surface form: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Willard Van Orman Quine → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Word and Object → influenced → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Naturalism → isAssociatedWith → Hilary Putnam ⓘ
Hans Reichenbach → notableStudent → Hilary Putnam ⓘ