Paul Benacerraf
American philosopher (born 1931) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (/bɪˈnæsərəf/; born March 26, 1931)[2][3] is a French-born American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mathematics who taught at Princeton University his entire career, from 1960 until his retirement in 2007. He was appointed Stuart Professor of Philosophy in 1974, and retired as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy.[4]
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Born | (1931-03-26) March 26, 1931 (age 93) Paris, France |
Education | Princeton University (PhD, 1960) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Thesis | Logicism, Some Considerations (1960) |
Doctoral advisor | Hilary Putnam |
Doctoral students | John Earman Alvin Goldman Richard Grandy Gideon Rosen Ronald de Sousa |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics |
Notable ideas | Mathematical structuralism (eliminative variety)[1] Benacerraf's identification problem for set-theoretic realism Benacerraf's epistemological problem for mathematical realism |
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