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David Kaplan

Philosophy of Language

David Benjamin Kaplan, born 17 September 1933, is an American philosopher and the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the UCLA Department of Philosophy, whose work focuses on the philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of Frege and Russell; he is best known for his work on demonstratives, propositions and reference in intensional contexts, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.

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Birth Year
1933 1
Birth Date
1933-09-17 1
Classification
Nationality
United States 1
Tradition
Tradition (category)
Analytic 1
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Epistemology, Branches of Philosophy
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Logic, Branches of Philosophy
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Metaphysics, Branches of Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language, Branches of Philosophy
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Analytic Philosophy, Schools of Philosophy
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United States

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    David Benjamin Kaplan (born September 17, 1933) is an American philosopher.
  • Infobox: birth_date
    September 17, 1933
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    is an American philosopher.
  • In Branch: Philosophy of Language, Infobox: main_interests
    Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology
  • In Branch: Logic, Infobox: main_interests
    Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology
  • In Branch: Metaphysics, Infobox: main_interests
    Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology
  • In Branch: Epistemology, Infobox: main_interests
    Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology
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David Kaplan (Wikipedia)
In Group: Analytic Philosophy Of Language, Infobox: school_tradition
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Analytic philosophy
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