Brandeis and Harvard are jointly hosting a conference on "Philosophy in the Age of Science" May 31 through June 3 to mark the 85th birthday of the renowned philosopher Hilary W. Putnam. Putnam is a ...

Hilary Putnam, philosopher emeritus at Harvard Univerity, visits Bates College to address the topic The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 ...

The American philosopher Hilary Putnam, who has died aged 89, transformed the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology. By focusing on the role, rather than ...

Hilary Putnam, a notable philosopher of this century, spent a large portion of his professional life teaching and researching just minutes from Commonwealth Avenue as a professor at Harvard University ...

Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, was one of the most influential philosophers of our time. His extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Hilary Putnam, a Harvard philosopher whose influence ranged widely across many fields of thought, ...

Hilary Putnam had an academic breadth few philosophers achieved and he resisted attempts to simplify the complexity of what he contemplated. “Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs in ...

TO BE identified with a distinctive position is an academic career’s crowning achievement. Hilary Putnam did better than that: his intellectual odyssey meant that on some of the most important ...

The recent death of Hilary Putnam at the age of 89 brings to a close one of the most distinguished, varied and prolific careers in analytic philosophy. He was one of the great American philosophers, ...

In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson delivered the following assessment of contemporary philosophers: “they are a sorry bunch of dwarfs. They are ...