
Hilary Putnam is being awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011 is being awarded to Hilary Putnam “for his contribution to the understanding of semantics for theoretical and ‘natural kind’ terms, and of the implications of this semantics for philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science and metaphysics“.Hilary Putnam (b. July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher and mathematician who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s. He is most well know in the fields of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. Putnam is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions as to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws; as a result, he has acquired a reputation for frequently changing his own position.
Read articles written by Hilary Putnam:
Truth and Convention: On Davidson’s Refutation of Conceptual Relativism
dialectica
Travis on Meaning, Thought and the Ways the World Is
The Philosophical Quarterly
Quantum Logic, Conditional Probability, and Interference
dialectica
Is Semantics Possible?
Metaphilosophy
Comment on “Empirical Realism And Other Minds”
Philosophical Investigations
God and the Philosophers
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
Liberalism, Radicalism and Contemporary “Unrest”
Metaphilosophy
Analyticity and Apriority: Beyond Wittgenstein and Quine
Midwest Studies in Philosophy
Does The Disquotational Theory Really Solve All Philosophical Problems
Metaphilosophy
Education For Democracy
Educational Theory
Congratulations to Professor Putnam!
Congratulations, Hilary and to the comittee who selected Professor Putnam to win this award. It is an excellent choice, very well deserved.
Best,
Alan