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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a leading American philosopher. He was born in Chicago, IL in 1926 and died in 2016. He made contributions in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language, mathematics, and logic. His most notable saying is "the view that truth and knowledge are objective." -
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PHD
Putnam got his PHD from UCLA where he did his dissertation under Hans Reichenbach. He did his dissertation on the concept of probability. He then taught philosophy at Northwestern University, Princeton, and MIT. He then joined the philosophy department at Harvard where he retired at in 2000.
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Realism
Beginning in the mid-1970s he talked about realism and what he called "metaphysical realism". "What the metaphysical realist holds is that we can think and talk about things as they are, independently of our minds, and that we can do this by virtue of a “correspondence” relation between the terms in our language and some sorts of mind-independent entities." This came from "Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World."
Throwing the baby out of the bathwater