Paul Benacerraf
Paul Benacerraf · Philosophy & Social Sciences
American philosopher of mathematics
1930, Paris, France — 2025, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
France · United States
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Benacerraf was one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers of mathematics; his essays 'What Numbers Could Not Be' (1965) and 'Mathematical Truth' (1973) framed a lasting dilemma about how we can both know mathematical objects and treat them as abstract entities. He taught at Princeton University for nearly five decades. He came from a Sephardic Jewish family, with a Moroccan-Venezuelan father and an Algerian Jewish mother; his brother was Nobel laureate Baruj Benacerraf.
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American philosopher of mathematics
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