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Professor Hilary Putnam FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1978
Year of birth
1926
Year of death
2016
Honours
FBA
Sections
Philosophy
Website
https://britac.ac.uk/senior-research-fellowships-past-awards-2016

Current post

Cogan University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

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The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.

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