Hilary Putnam
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Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science.
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An illustration of multiple realizability. M stands for mental and P stands for physical. It can be seen that more than one P can instantiate one M, but not vice versa. Causal relations between states are represented by the arrows (M1 goes to M2, etc.).
A "brain in a vat" - Putnam uses this thought experiment to argue that skeptical scenarios are impossible.Awards 6
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Michael DummettAlso won Lauener Prize
Alasdair MacIntyreAlso won Carus Lectures
Saul KripkeAlso won Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
Alvin PlantingaAlso won Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy
Donald DavidsonAlso won Carus Lectures
Derek ParfitAlso won Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and PhilosophyAbout this person
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis-Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem and he helped demonstrate the unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem.
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