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Obituary

Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)

Maria Baghramian remembers her long-standing mentor and friend.

Hilary Whitehall Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time, died on 13th March 2016, in his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Hilary Putnam was born on July 31st 1926, in Chicago, Illinois, to Samuel Putnam, best known for his landmark translation of Don Quixote (1949), and Riva Lillian Sampson. In 1927, when he was six months old, the family moved to Paris, where his father translated the works of Rabelais and edited the literary magazine The New Review. Putnam grew up in the artistic world of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S.

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