Hilary Putnam is being awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2011 is being awarded 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, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science and metaphysics".
Previous recipients of the prize
1993 W V Quine
1995 Michael Dummett
1997 Dana Scott
1999 John Rawls
2001 Saul Kripke
2003 Solomon Feferman
2005 Jaakko Hintikka
2008 Thomas Nagel