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Hilary Putnam

  • Achievements

    Hilary Putnam became acquainted Rudolf carnap and the mathematical logician George Krisel, Hilary Putnam immersed himself in mathematical logic. Hilary Putnam worked on one of the 23 unsolved problems in mathematics identified but David Hilbert.
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    About Me

    Hilary Putnam was a leading American philosopher who made major contributions to metaphysic epistemology, philosophy of the mid, philosophy of language. philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic in the second half of the 20th centenary.
  • My Birthday

    My Birthday
    Hilary Putnam was born in July, 31st,1926 in Chicago, Illinois
    He was the only child of Samuel and Riva Putnam.
  • Teaching

    Hilary Putnam taught philosophy at Northwestern University (1951-1952), Princeton university(1953-1961), and the Massachusetts institute of technology until 1976.
  • Involvements

    Involvements
    In the 1960's Hilary Putnam was involved in the antiwar movements that opposed U.S participation in the Vietnam war. He was active i students for democratic society and in the progressive labor party, a Maoist group, but in the early 1970'2 he became disillusioned with far- left political ideology.
  • Education

    Education
    Hilary Putnam studied mathematics and philosophy at the the university of Pennsylvanian and attended graduate school in philosophy at Harvard university and the university of California at Los Angeles. While attending UCLA Hilary Putnam wrote a dissertation, under Hans Reichenbach on the concept of probability, obtaining a PH.D in 1915.
  • Hilary Putnam

    In 2012 a collection of Hilary Putnam papers titled philosophy in a age of science was published by Harvard university.
  • My Death

    My Death
    Hilary Putnam later died in March 13th, 2016
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  • Citation

    “Hilary Putnam.” Department of Philosophy, philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/people/hilary-putnam.
    “Hilary Putnam.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam.