One of the most influential American philosophers of the post-World War II generation, Hilary Putnam has also been one of the most prolific. His corpus includes fifteen books and more than two hundred articles ranging over philosophy of science,...

. 1926–. Born in Chicago, he has worked mainly at Harvard. Like KRIPKE, he came to philosophy from mathematics; their causal theories of MEANING have much in common, with Putnam concentrating mainly on ‘natural kind terms’ (such as...

Putnam, Hilary(1926–) Hilary Putnam, after receiving a BA from Pennsylvania (1948) and a year spent at Harvard (1948–1949), studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, taking his doctorate in 1951 with a dissertation titled...

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I taught my first philosophy classes in the autumn of 1952, at Northwestern University. In those days, an instructor was expected to teach three or four courses a quarter, and thus in the space of a year I taught nine or 10 different courses, most...

I taught my first philosophy classes in the autumn of 1952, at Northwestern University. In those days, an instructor was expected to teach three or four courses a quarter, and thus in the space of a year I taught nine or 10 different courses, most...