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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.
CV. Ph.D., Princeton, 1960. Joined the faculty in 1960. His interests are in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
Paul served as chairman of the Department of Philosophy during two crucial periods, from 1975 to 1984, and from 1992 to 1999. He was a major factor in building a lively intellectual community and a first-rate research department that is known throughout the world. Paul has also been active in the larger community of analytic philosophers.
Paul Benacerraf. Rm. 107, Marx Hall. Curriculum Vitae. Ph.D., Princeton, 1960. Joined the faculty in 1960. His interests are in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.
The problem, first presented by Paul Benacerraf (1973), is that plausible accounts of mathematical truth and plausible accounts of mathematical knowledge appear to be incompatible with each other. It has received a great deal of attention in the philosophy of mathematics throughout the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries.
Sep 3, 2015 · Paul Benacerraf was a beginning graduate student in Hilary Putnam's first year at Princeton, and he and Putnam immediately became firm friends. Shortly before Putnam's retirement from Harvard in 2000, Benacerraf was asked to make some remarks about their early years together.
Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf 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.
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