Putnam awarded Rolf Schock Prize

The 2011 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy will be awarded on Nov. 2 to Hilary Putnam “for his contribution to the understanding of semantics for theoretical and ‘natural kind’ terms, and of the implications of this semantics for philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.” Putnam is the Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.

The Rolf Schock Prizes are triennially awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Putnam will receive $75,000.

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