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Paul Benacerraf | |
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| Born | 26 March 1930 |
| Died | 13 January 2025 (aged 94) |
| 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 |
Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (/bɪˈnæsərəf/; 26 March 1930 – 13 January 2025) was 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. Benacerraf was appointed Stuart Professor of Philosophy in 1974, and retired as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy.[2]
- ^ Stewart Shapiro, "Mathematical Structuralism", Philosophia Mathematica, 4(2), May 1996, pp. 81–2.
- ^ "Paul Benacerraf Symposium | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2017-11-30.