Hilary Putnam (1926-2016). Born in Chicago
and educated at the university of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and the
University of California at LA. Hilary Putnam taught at Northwestern
University, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
before moving to Harvard University in 1965. Although he wrote in the idiom of
analytic philosophy, Putnam addressed major themes relating science to ethics.
He also taught Jewish philosophy at Harvard in the decade before his retirement
in 2000. his many books include ``Ethics without Ontology``, ``The threefold
chord``, ``Mind, Body and world``, ``Words and Life`` and ``Pragmatism: An Open
Question``. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association
(Eastern Division), the philosophy of Science Association, and the Association
for Symbolic Logic.