David Kaplan (philosopher)

David Benjamin Kaplan ( born 1933 ) is an American philosopher. His works have driven the development of logic and philosophy of language shall prevail. Best known are his work on indexicality of demonstrative.

Life and work

Kaplan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA) in 1964. He was the last doctoral student of Rudolf Carnap, a main representative of logical empiricism. Kaplan's work was entitled " Foundations of Intentional Logic". His teachers include Alonzo Church and Richard Montague, who is a co-founder of formal semantics of natural languages ​​. Kaplan is a professor at UCLA.

The thinker is concerned primarily with logic and philosophy of language issues. Kaplan worked among others in Demonstrative a seminal distinction between content ( propositional content ) and character ( linguistic meaning) in the analysis of demonstrative and related linguistic expressions. The approach solves among other problems that have been raised by the theory of Frege to proper names. He linked to a truth- value analysis based on pragmatic arguments to account for normal linguistic issues in the framework of formal language theory better. Kaplan optimized its Indexikalitätslogik a decade later again in Afterthoughts, where he central concepts from Demonstrative reformulated taking into account the criticism of his proposal again.

Works

  • " Quantifying In ," Synthesis, XIX 1968.
  • "On the Logic of Demonstratives, " Journal of Philosophical Logic, VIII 1978: 81-98; and reprinted in French et al. (eds. ), Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979 ): 401-412.
  • " Dthat, " Syntax and Semantics, vol. 9, ed P. Cole ( New York: Academic Press, 1978); and reprinted in The Philosophy of Language, ed AP Martinich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
  • " Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, " in Approaches to Natural Language ( J.Hintikka et al., Eds. ), Reidel, 1973.
  • "How to Russell a Frege - Church, " The Journal of Philosophy, LXXII 1975.
  • " Opacity, " in W.V.O. Quine ( L. Hahn, ed ) Open Court, 1986.
  • " Demonstratives " and " Afterthoughts " in Themes From Kaplan ( Almog, et al., Eds. ), Oxford 1989.
  • "Words, " The Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, LXIV 1990
  • "A problem in the Possible World Semantics, " in Modality, Morality, and Belief (W. Sinnott - Armstrong et al., Eds. ) Cambridge, 1995.
  • " Reading 'On Denoting ' on its Centenary ", Mind, 114 2005: 934-1003.

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  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Philosopher of language
  • Logician
  • Americans
  • Born in 1933
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