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    Paul Benacerraf

    Paul Benacerraf

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1930

    Paul Benacerraf is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of mathematics. His two landmark papers, 'What Numbers Could Not Be' (1965) and 'Mathematical Truth' (1973), shaped subsequent debates about mathematical ontology and epistemology, posing what is now called 'Benacerraf's dilemma' about reconciling mathematical truth with mathematical knowledge.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Formulated Benacerraf's identification problem in 'What Numbers Could Not Be' (1965)

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    Posed Benacerraf's epistemological dilemma in 'Mathematical Truth' (1973)

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    Co-edited the influential anthology 'Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings' with Hilary Putnam

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    Served as James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton

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    Advanced structuralist approaches to the philosophy of mathematics

    Positions & Arguments(3)

    Modality & Possibility

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    By analogy, simply positing relational tropes does not provide an effective theoretical response to Bradley's argument

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    Ordinary objects include both actually concrete objects and possible objects that are not in fact concrete but could have been.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    By analogy, simply positing relational tropes does not provide an effective theoretical response to Bradley's argument

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    For any real number x, the terms of a conditionally convergent series can be rearranged so that x is the sum of the rearranged series.

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