Mathematician:Hilary Whitehall Putnam
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Mathematician
American mathematician and philosopher, who has written significantly on various subjects, such as the philosophy of logic and language acquisition.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 31 July 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died: 13 March 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Theorems and Definitions
- MRDP Theorem (with Yuri Vladimirovich Matiyasevich, Martin David Davis and Julia Hall Bowman Robinson)
Publications
- 1957: The Definition of Universal Turing Machine (with Martin Davis)
- 1960: Exact separation of recursively enumerable sets within theories (with Raymond M. Smullyan)
- 1961: The Decision Problem for Exponential Diophantine Equations (with Martin Davis and Julia Robinson)
- 1967: The "Innateness Hypothesis" and Explanatory Models in Linguistics
- 1971: Philosophy of Logic
- 1975: Mathematics, Matter and Method. Philosophical Papers, vol. 1
- 1975: Mind, Language and Reality. Philosophical Papers, vol. 2
- 1978: Meaning and the Moral Sciences
- 1981: Reason, Truth, and History
- 1983: Realism and Reason. Philosophical Papers, vol. 3.
- 1987: The Many Faces of Realism
- 1988: Representation and Reality
- 1992: Renewing Philosophy
- 1995: Pragmatism: An Open Question
- 1999: The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World
- 2001: Enlightenment and Pragmatism
- 2002: The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
- 2002: Ethics Without Ontology