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Hilary Putnam
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 276
Citations - 27994
Hilary Putnam is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of science & Analytic philosophy. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 274 publications receiving 27155 citations. Previous affiliations of Hilary Putnam include Princeton University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A Computing Procedure for Quantification Theory
Martin Davis,Hilary Putnam +1 more
TL;DR: In the present paper, a uniform proof procedure for quantification theory is given which is feasible for use with some rather complicated formulas and which does not ordinarily lead to exponentiation.
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Reason, truth, and history
TL;DR: Putnam as discussed by the authors deals with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality, and his aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems.
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Mind, language, and reality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the concept of a person, the meaning of meaning, and the nature of mental states in the mind of a human being and the mental life of some machines.
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The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
TL;DR: Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective" as mentioned in this paper.
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Reason, Truth and History.
Robert K. Shope,Hilary Putnam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of science on modern conceptions of rationality is discussed and a problem about reference is discussed. But it is not discussed in detail and only two philosophical perspectives of rationality are discussed.