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Hilary Whitehall Putnam foi um filósofo estadunidense e uma das figuras centrais da filosofia ocidental desde a década de 1960, especialmente em filosofia da mente, filosofia da linguagem e filosofia da ciência. Ele é conhecido pela sua prontidão em aplicar igual grau de escrutínio tanto às próprias posições filosóficas quanto às posições de outros filósofos, submetendo cada posição a uma análise rigorosa e expondo seus defeitos. Como resultado, Putnam adquiriu a reputação de filósofo que muda freqüentemente de posição.

Na filosofia da mente, Putnam é conhecido pelos seus argumentos contra a identidade-tipo dos estados mentais e físicos, baseado nas suas hipóteses da realização múltipla da mente, e pelo conceito de funcionalismo, uma teoria influente sobre o problema corpo-mente.

Na filosofia da língua, com Saul Kripke e outros, ele desenvolveu a teoria causal da referência, que aplicou principalmente aos termos de espécie natural como água, tigre, olmo e etc.. Formulou uma teoria original do significado que tenta levar em consideração a linguagem o mundo e a sociedade, criando com isto uma noção de externalismo semântico, baseado num famoso pensamento experiente chamado Terra Gêmea . Entretanto Putnam já não acreditava mais nos resultados deste experimento mental. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Julho 1926 – 13. Março 2016
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“No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”

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(1987) The Many Faces of Realism. p. 71

“[Oddly enough, Putnam believes part of the attraction of some of these formalisms is their obscurity]. "I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!"”

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Putnam as quoted in: Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom (2005) What Philosophers Think. p. 233

“The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.”

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in What is Mathematics, in [Hilary Putnam, Mathematics, matter, and method, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 0521295505, 60]

“It was Rudolf Carnap’s dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.”

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Hilary Putnam, in: James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen (2012) Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism. p. 14

“What we are left with, if what I have said so far is right, is a conclusion that I initially found very distressing: either GRW or some successor, or else Bohm or some successor, is the correct interpretation—or, to include a third possibility to please Itamar Pitowski, we will just fail to find a scientific realist interpretation which is acceptable.”

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And the ghost of Bohr will laugh, and say, ‘I told you all along that the human mind cannot produce a realist interpretation of quantum mechanics’!
"A philosopher looks at quantum mechanics (again)", Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 56 (2005), 615–634

“The real significance of the Russell paradox, from the standpoint of the modal-logic picture, is this: it shows that no concrete structure can be a standard model for the naive conception of the totality of all sets; for any concrete structure has a possible extension that contains more 'sets.'”

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"Mathematics without foundations"
Fonte: Philosophical Papers Volume 1: Mathematics, Matter, and Method (1975, 1979)
Contexto: (If we identify sets with the points that represent them in the various possible concrete structures, we might say: it is not possible for all possible sets to exist in any one world!) Yet set theory does not become impossible. Rather, set theory becomes the study of what must hold in, e.g. any standard model for Zermelo set theory.

“To require that all of these must be reducible to a single version is to make the mistake of supposing that 'Which are the real objects?' is a question that makes sense independently of our choice of concepts.”

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Lecture I: Is There Still Anything to Say about Reality and Truth?
The Many Faces of Realism (1987)

“It is evident that Feyerabend is misusing the term 'meaning.'”

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He is not alone in such misuse: in the last thirty years, misusing the term 'meaning' has been one of the most common, if least successful, ways of 'establishing' philosophical propositions. But how did this distressing state of affairs come to be? The blame must be placed squarely upon the Logical Positivists. The 'Verifiability Theory of Meaning' ('the meaning of a sentence is its method of verification') was, from the first, nothing but a persuasive redefinition. If to call metaphysical propositions 'meaningless' were only to assert that these propositions are empirically untestable, it would be harmless (the metaphysicians always said that their assertions were neither empirically testable nor tautologies); but, of course, it is not harmless, because the Positivist hopes that we will accept his redefinition of the term 'meaning,' while retaining the pejorative connotations of being 'meaningless' in the customary {linguistic) sense, i.e. being literally without sense.
"How not to talk about meaning" (1965)
Philosophical Papers Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality (1975)