Frederic Ward Putnam

On Putnam

Hilary Putnam has made major contributions to philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. In philosophy of mind, he developed the theories of multiple instantiability and functionalism. In philosophy of language, a major contribution of his is semantic externalism. This paper will give a very brief overview of multiple instantiability and functionalism, and then describe semantic externalism...

Frederic Charles Bartlett, 1886-1969.

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7 Discussion Frederic

Taylor's paper is a useful and balanced discussion of the implications of forward-looking behavior for how monetary policy should be conducted. However, he might leave the reader with a misleading impression that the nonmarket clearing, rational expectations approach that he advocates is an outlying position that is not widely accepted. To the contrary, a high, and I think growing, percentage o...

Frederic Lawrence Holmes 1932–2003

My Putnam Problems

4. (A1 or B1 problem) Let C be a circle of radius 1, and let D be a diameter of C. Let P be the set of all points inside or on C such that p is closer to D than it is to the circumference of C. Find a rational number r such that the area of P is r. 5. Let n be a positive integer, let 0 ≤ j < n, and let fn(j) be the number of subsets S of the set {0, 1, . . . , n−1} such that the sum of the elem...