Mathematician:Hilary Whitehall Putnam

American mathematician and philosopher, who has written significantly on various subjects, such as the philosophy of logic and language acquisition.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: July 31, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Theorems and Definitions

 * Rietdijk-Putnam Argument (with C.W. Rietdijk)

Books and Papers

 * 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