Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf, born in Paris in 1930 and died in 2025, was a French-born American philosopher working in the philosophy of mathematics. He taught at Princeton University for his entire career, from 1960 until his retirement in 2007, and held the Stuart Professorship from 1974. He is best known for the papers What Numbers Could Not Be, published in 1965, and Mathematical Truth, published in 1973, and for an anthology on the philosophy of mathematics that he co-edited with Hilary Putnam. In the first paper he argues against a Platonist view of mathematics and for structuralism.
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Benacerraf's identification problem is a philosophical argument developed by Paul Benacerraf against set-theoretic Platonism and published in 1965 in an article entitled "What Numbers Could Not Be".
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