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David Kaplan (philosopher)

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David Benjamin Kaplan (born September 17, 1933) is the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Philosophy. [1]

50 relations: A priori and a posteriori, Alonzo Church, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American philosophy, Analytic philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Bertrand Russell, British Academy, C. Anthony Anderson, Contemporary philosophy, De dicto and de re, Demonstrative, Doctor of Philosophy, Donald Kalish, Epistemology, Extension (metaphysics), Extensional context, Frege's puzzles, Gottlob Frege, If and only if, Indexicality, John Perry (philosopher), John Stuart Mill, Linguistics, List of American philosophers, Logic, Logical truth, Metaphysics, Michael Devitt, Naming and Necessity, Nathan Salmon, On Denoting, P. F. Strawson, Philosophy of language, Possible world, Proposition, Reference, Referent, Richard Montague, Rudolf Carnap, Saul Kripke, Scott Soames, Sense and reference, Singular term, Truth value, Two-dimensionalism, UCLA Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, Western philosophy, Willard Van Orman Quine.

A priori and a posteriori

The Latin phrases a priori ("from the earlier") and a posteriori ("from the latter") are philosophical terms of art popularized by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.

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Alonzo Church

Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American philosophy

American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States.

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Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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C. Anthony Anderson

Curtis Anthony Anderson (born May 29, 1940) is a contemporary American philosopher, presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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De dicto and de re

De dicto and de re are two phrases used to mark a distinction in intentional statements, associated with the intentional operators in many such statements.

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Demonstrative

Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Donald Kalish

Donald Kalish (December 4, 1919 – June 8, 2000) was an American logician, educator, and anti-war activist.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Extension (metaphysics)

In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal mental cognition into the external world.

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Extensional context

In philosophy of language, a context in which a sub-sentential expression e appears is called extensional if and only if e can be replaced by an expression with the same extension and necessarily preserve truth-value.

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Frege's puzzles

Frege's puzzles are puzzles about the semantics of proper names, although related puzzles also arise in the case of indexicals.

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.

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If and only if

In logic and related fields such as mathematics and philosophy, if and only if (shortened iff) is a biconditional logical connective between statements.

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Indexicality

In semiotics, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy of language, indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to (or indexing) some object in the context in which it occurs.

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John Perry (philosopher)

John R. Perry (born 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside.

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill, also known as J.S. Mill, (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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List of American philosophers

This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.

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Logic

Logic (from the logikḗ), originally meaning "the word" or "what is spoken", but coming to mean "thought" or "reason", is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth, and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference.

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Logical truth

Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic, and there are different theories on its nature.

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

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Michael Devitt

Michael Devitt (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the City University of New York in New York City.

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Naming and Necessity

Naming and Necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by philosopher Saul Kripke, at Princeton University in 1970, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy of language.

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Nathan Salmon

Nathan U. Salmon (né Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu in 1951) is an American philosopher in the analytic tradition, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.

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On Denoting

"On Denoting" is an essay by Bertrand Russell.

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P. F. Strawson

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006), usually cited as P. F. Strawson, was an English philosopher.

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Philosophy of language

Philosophy of language explores the relationship between language and reality.

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Possible world

In philosophy and logic, the concept of a possible world is used to express modal claims.

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Proposition

The term proposition has a broad use in contemporary analytic philosophy.

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Reference

Reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.

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Referent

A referent is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers.

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Richard Montague

Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher.

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was a German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.

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Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician.

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Scott Soames

Scott Soames (born August 11, 1946) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California.

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Sense and reference

In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an innovation of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper "On Sense and Reference"; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), reflecting the two ways he believed a singular term may have meaning.

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Singular term

A singular term is a paradigmatic referring device in a language.

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Truth value

In logic and mathematics, a truth value, sometimes called a logical value, is a value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth.

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Two-dimensionalism

Two-dimensionalism is an approach to semantics in analytic philosophy.

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UCLA Department of Philosophy

The UCLA Department of Philosophy is a constituent department of the Division of Humanities in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine (known to intimates as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continually affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of logic and set theory, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaplan_(philosopher)

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