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Hilary Putnam lived to be 89 years old.
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Putnam studied at the University of Pennsylvania and studied mathematics and philosophy. He later attended graduated school at Harvard University and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and gradated in philosophy.
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Martin Davis and Hilary Putnam both worked together to create what we know today as the "Davis Putnam Algorithm (dpll)" this is a procedure used to check the validity of a formula in math.
Here is a demonstration.
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Putnam played a significant role in the antiwar movement that opposed U.S. from fighting in the Vietnam war. He participated in the Progressive Labor Party which was a maoist group.
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Putnam taught philosophy at Northwestern University, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology up until 1976 which is when he joined the philosophy department of Harvard University.
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Putnam critiqued his own previous view on Metaphysical Realism by wanting to replace it with Internal Realism instead.
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Putnam created an experiment to support the theory "to raise the problem of skepticism with respect to the external world in a modern way" which co-sides with his theory on "Meaning." Here is a video to better explain. https://youtu.be/zO0sSJB1TrI
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Putnam published a book titled "Words and Life" supporting the idea that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to philosophical progress.
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Putnam eventually retired from Harvard at age 74. He retired as Cogan University professor Emeritus.
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Putnam did not support scientism or its way of thinking, he preferred seeing things from a philosophical perspective instead. Hence, why he created the book "Philosophy in the age of Science: Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism"
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On March 13th, 2016 Hilary Putnam Passed away in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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Ben-Menahem, Y. (2022, July 27). Hilary Putnam. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 9, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hilary-Putnam
(2016). YouTube. Retrieved September 9, 2022, from https://youtu.be/zO0sSJB1TrI.