David Kaplan (philosopher)

David Kaplan
Born (1933-09-17) September 17, 1933 (age 91)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA; PhD, 1964)
SpouseRenée Singer Kaplan (1956–present)
Awards
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ThesisFoundations of Intensional Logic (1964)
Doctoral advisorRudolf Carnap
Main interests
Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology
Notable ideas
Two-dimensionalism,[1] semantic analysis of indexicals and demonstratives, "quantifying in", Kaplan's intensional paradox[2]
WebsiteFaculty webpage
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David Benjamin Kaplan (/ˈkæplən/; born September 17, 1933) is an American philosopher. He is the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the UCLA Department of Philosophy. His philosophical work focuses on the philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of Frege and Russell.[3] He is best known for his work on demonstratives, propositions, and reference in intensional contexts. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1983[4] and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.[5]

  1. ^ Two-Dimensional Semantics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  2. ^ Andrew Bacon, John Hawthorne & Gabriel Uzquiano, "Higher-order free logic and the Prior-Kaplan paradox", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46(4–5): 493–541 (2016).
  3. ^ "David Kaplan - Faculty".
  4. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences | UCLA".
  5. ^ "David Kaplan - British Academy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2015-07-06.