Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. He was a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. His most consistent position has been his rejection of logical positivism as self-defeating.
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Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. He was a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He made significant contributions to philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. His most consistent position has been his rejection of logical positivism as self-defeating. He died at the age of 89 on August 11, 2011. He is survived by his wife, Rutha, and a daughter, Anna Rutha Gotha Putnam, who is a professor of philosophy at Wellesley College. He also leaves a son, Michael, who was a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His daughter is the author of a book on the history of computer science, “Computer Science and the Death of Hilary Putnam”, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. in 2012. The book also includes a biography of Noam Chomsky, who he met at Central High School in Philadelphia. It is published by Oxford University Press, with a forward by Putnam and a foreword by Chomsky. For more information on Hilary and his family, visit www.hilarywhitehallputnam.com. For more on the family, see their website, www. hilarywhiteman.com, or their blog, HilaryWhitehallPutnam.org. In the U.S., you can find their website at: http://www.hilewhitehall.com/.
For more about the family and their history, visit: http:/www. hillewhitehall putnam.co.uk/. For a list of some of the family’s most notable relatives, see: Hilary Whitehall Putnam and his great-grandfather, William Whitehall, Sr. (1875-1955). For a full list of all the Putnam family members, click here. For a complete list of his works, go to:http:www.ahl.org/Putnam-family.html. At the time of his death, putnam was Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He was also a prominent member of the Philomathean Society, the country’s oldest continually existing collegiate literary society. He did graduate work at Harvard and later at UCLA’S philosophy department, where he received his Ph.D. in 1951 for his dissertation, The Meaning of the Probability in Application to Sequences. In his later work, he became increasingly interested in American pragmatism, Jewish philosophy, and ethics, engaging with a wider array of philosophical traditions. In the philosophy of perception, he came to endorse direct realism, according to which perceptual experiences directly present one with the external world. He once further held that there are no mental representations, sense data, or other intermediaries that stand between the mind and the world. By 2012, he rejected this commitment in favor of \”transactionalism\”
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