Hilary Putnam (1926–2016)
Autor(a) de Reason, Truth and History
About the Author
According to John Passmore, Hilary Putnam's work is a "history of recent philosophy in outline" (Recent Philosophers). He adds that writing "about "Putnam's philosophy' is like trying to capture the wind with a fishing-net." Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the mostrar mais University of California at Los Angeles, Putnam taught at Northwestern University, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to Harvard University in 1965. In his early years at Harvard, he was an outspoken opponent of the war in Vietnam. Although he writes in the idiom of analytic philosophy, Putnam addresses major themes relating science to ethics and epistemology. If these themes are reminiscent of David Hume---as, for that matter, is much of analytic philosophy---his treatment of them is not. Putnam's work is far more profoundly shaped by recent work in logic, foundations of mathematics, and science than would have been possible for Hume; Putnam has contributed to each. He differs from Hume and stands more in the tradition of Willard Quine and American pragmatism in his treatment of the crucial distinctions between analytic and synthetic statements and between facts and values. Both distinctions, sharply made by Hume, are claimed by Putnam not to be absolute. He attempts to show, for example, that basic concepts of philosophy, science, and mathematics all are interrelated, so that mathematics bears more similarity to empirical reasoning than is customarily acknowledged. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Hilary Putnam
"Brains in a Vat" - H. Putnam 3 cópias
Two Philosophical Perspectives 2 cópias
It Ain't Necessarily So 1 exemplar(es)
Realismo del volto umano 1 exemplar(es)
What Is InnateandWhy : Commentson the Debat 1 exemplar(es)
O Realismo de Rosto Humano 1 exemplar(es)
Renovar a Filosofia Livro 1 1 exemplar(es)
La vida mental de algunas máquinas 1 exemplar(es)
Wittgenstein era um pragmatista? 1 exemplar(es)
Verdade Reabilitada 1 exemplar(es)
Causalidade Mental 1 exemplar(es)
Information and the Mental 1 exemplar(es)
La naturaleza de los estados mentales 1 exemplar(es)
¿Es posible la semántica? 1 exemplar(es)
How not to solve ethical problems 1 exemplar(es)
La "corroborazione" delle teorie 1 exemplar(es)
'A politics of hope' in TLS 4964, 22 May 1998 [review of Rorty's 'Achieving our country'] 1 exemplar(es)
A Problem About Reference 1 exemplar(es)
Ben-Menahem (ed) 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and God, With a New Introduction by Hilary Putnam (1954) — Introdução, algumas edições — 72 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Putnam, Hilary
- Nome de batismo
- Putnam, Hilary Whitehall
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-07-31
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-03-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa da morte
- mesothelioma
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
France - Educação
- University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. ∙ Philosophy)
Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania - Ocupação
- professor (philosophy)
philosopher
mathematician
computer scientist - Relacionamentos
- Putnam, Samuel (parent)
Steinitz, Rebecca (daughter-in-law) - Organizações
- American Philosophical Association (President ∙ Eastern Division)
Harvard University - Premiações
- Prometheus Prize (2010)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1965)
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 57
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 2,173
- Popularidade
- #11,808
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 147
- Idiomas
- 10
- Favorito
- 4