Putnam Anniversary Volume

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...

50th Anniversary Special Issue of Vision Research – Volume 2

This is the second of two volumes celebrating 50 years of Vision Research. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Vision Research, we invited knowledgeable, productive, and respected scientists who have been contributors to our field throughout the last quarter century, still active professionally and sympathetic to Vision Research as evidenced by having recently published in the journal (adapted...

Centennial anniversary volume of the American Neurological Association 1875–1975

Volume commemorating the 75th anniversary of G. A. Lindeboom

establishments for recognition of Scottish degrees, and the slow decline of the Scottish, clinically-based medical curriculum as its laboratory-based German counterpart rose to displace it in popularity. The final chapter on the twentieth century gives a valuable account of the development of state medicine in Scotland, including a section on the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, and the s...

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...