Hilary Whitehall Putnam (/ ˈpʌtnəm /; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th …

Mar 9, 2026 · Hilary Putnam was a leading American philosopher who made major contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of …

Hilary Whitehall Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time, died on 13th March 2016, …

Hilary Whitehall Putnam (1926–2016) was a major American philosopher whose work transformed the philosophy of mind, language, science, and mathematics, and later ethics and religion.

Putnam’s most far-reaching work lay in philosophy of language, where he originated semantic externalism: the reference of our words is not determined by features that are cognitively available to …

Feb 9, 2026 · Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem [2] …

Apr 28, 2016 · Putnam was a philosopher of science (with a self-admitted broadly defined conception thereof) and a major force in the Analytic fields of the philosophies of mind, language, and math. He …

Hilary Putnam has 113 books on Goodreads with 10492 ratings. Hilary Putnam’s most popular book is Reason, Truth and History.

“Hilary Putnam: From Mathematics to Meaning” has been an odyssey, exploring the evolution of one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, whose work spans an astonishing breadth of …

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