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8 unusual facts about Hilary Putnam


A Posteriori Necessity

Hilary Putnam comments on the significance of Kripke’s counter-examples,

Descriptivist theory of names

In the 1970s, this theory came under strong attack from causal theorists such as Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam and others.

Empiricism

The central theses of logical positivism (verificationism, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reductionism, etc.) came under sharp attack after World War 2 by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, W.V. Quine, Hilary Putnam, Karl Popper, and Richard Rorty.

Frege's Puzzle

This trend began some time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when such philosophers as Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, Saul Kripke, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Hilary Putnam began to entertain arguments against Frege's theory.

Need

These "gross ethical concepts" (as stated by Hilary Putnam) should also include an evaluation: Ross Fitzgerald's criticism of Maslow's ideas rejects the concept of objective human needs and uses instead the concept of preferences.

Paul Benacerraf

Benacerraf is perhaps best known for his two papers What Numbers Could Not Be (1965) and Mathematical Truth (1973), and for his highly successful anthology on the philosophy of mathematics, co-edited with Hilary Putnam.

Platonism

This modern Platonism (sometimes rendered "platonism," with a lower-case p, to distinguish it from the ancient schools) has been endorsed in one way or another at one time or another by numerous philosophers (most of whom taking a particular interest in the philosophy and foundations of logic and mathematics), including Bernard Bolzano, Gottlob Frege, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, W.V. Quine, Hilary Putnam, George Bealer and Edward Zalta.

Samuel Putnam

Putnam is the father of noted American philosopher Hilary Putnam.


New Wittgenstein

Philosophers often associated with the interpretation include a number of influential philosophers, mostly associated with (although sometimes antagonistic to) the traditions of analytic philosophy, including Stanley Cavell, James F. Conant, John McDowell, Matthew B. Ostrow, Thomas Ricketts, Warren Goldfarb, Hilary Putnam, Stephen Mulhall, Alice Crary, and Cora Diamond.


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