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Birth
Hilary putnam -
Meaning
Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of ‘Meaning’. It interpret meaning as an external reality rather than mental entities or conceptual constructs. Work cited:
Ben-Menahem, Yemima. "Hilary Putnam". Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Jul. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam. Accessed 7 March 2021. -
Mental Life
Philosophy and Our Mental Life was published. It explained the multiple realizability which meant function and structure are not one to one correspondence, and that function can be performed in different physical systems. Work cited: Hickey, Lance P. Hilary Putnam. Continuum, 2009. -
Metaphysical Realism
Putnam argued against a view he called Metaphysical Realism, asking that internal realism be chosen instead. Work cited:
Ben-Menahem, Yemima. "Hilary Putnam". Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Jul. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam. Accessed 7 March 2021. -
Common sense
Putnam published a paper called Reason, Truth an History. Here Hilary Putman referred to internal realism as commonsense realism. Work cited:
Ben-Menahem, Yemima. "Hilary Putnam". Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Jul. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam. Accessed 7 March 2021. -
Death
Hilary Putnam died
Work cited: Hickey, Lance P. Hilary Putnam. Continuum, 2009.
