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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1959 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Hilary Putnam was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work covered fields primarily within Arts and Humanities as well as Psychology. Subfields included Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research focused on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education, Philosophy, Science, and History, Classical Philosophy and Thought, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, and Free Will and Agency.

Frequent co-authors included Mario De, Jacques Bouveresse, and Renato Mendes Rocha. The scholar published in notable venues such as The Monist, Perspectiva Filosófica, Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, and Harvard University Press eBooks.

Recent publications by Hilary Putnam comprised the following works:

  • Free Will and Quantum Mechanics, 2020, The Monist
  • A Conversation between Jacques Bouveresse and Hilary Putnam, 2020, The Monist
  • Tradução de "Realism and Reason" de Hilary Putnam, 2020, Perspectiva Filosófica
  • Jewish Ethics?, 2022, Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics
  • Contents, 2022, Harvard University Press eBooks

Hilary Putnam published books through Harvard University Press, including multiple editions of Philosophy as Dialogue in 2022.

The scholar was recognized with the award Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1959.

Best Publications

  • Reason, truth, and history

    Hilary Putnam

  • A Computing Procedure for Quantification Theory

    Martin Davis;Hilary Putnam

  • Mind, language, and reality

    Hilary Putnam

  • Meaning and Reference

    Hilary Putnam

  • Representation and Reality

    Hilary Putnam

  • The impact of science on modern conceptions of rationality

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  • The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays

    Hilary Putnam

  • Mind, Language and Reality: The meaning of ‘meaning’

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  • Mind language and reality : philosophical papers.

    Hilary Putnam

  • Realism with a human face

    Hilary Putnam;James Bryant Conant

  • Meaning and the moral sciences

    Hilary Putnam

  • Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis

    Paul Oppenheim;Hilary Putnam

  • Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers

    Hilary Putnam

  • Realism and reason

    Hilary Putnam

  • Models and Reality

    Hilary Putnam

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    Hilary Putnam;Paul Benacerraf

  • The many faces of realism

    Hilary Putnam

  • Mind and World

    Hilary Putnam;John McDowell

  • Philosophy of mathematics : selected readings

    Paul Benacerraf;Hilary Putnam

  • Mathematics, matter, and method

    Hilary Putnam

  • Ethics without Ontology

    Hilary Putnam

  • What is mathematical truth

    Hilary Putnam

  • Reason, Truth and History.

    Robert K. Shope;Hilary Putnam

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles S. Peirce
Charles S. Peirce Pennsylvania State University
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Paul Guyer
Paul Guyer Brown University
John McDowell
John McDowell University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Ruth Garrett Millikan University of Connecticut
Kent Bach
Kent Bach San Francisco State University
Michael Devitt
Michael Devitt City University of New York
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum University of Chicago

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