Putnam Wins 2011 Schock Prize in "Logic and Philosophy"

Hilary Putnam (emeritus, Harvard), who turns 85 this year, is the winner of the 2011 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.  (Thanks to Steve Gross for the pointer.)

Past winners are Thomas Nagel (NYU), Jaakko Hintikka (BU), Solomon Feferman (emeritus, Stanford), Saul Kripke (CUNY Grad Center), John Rawls (late of Harvard), Dana Scott (emeritus, Carnegie-Mellon), Michael Dummett (emeritus, Oxford), and W.V.O. Quine (late of Harvard).  The next prize will be 2013.