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By Joseph Almog, Paolo Leonardi
David Kaplan's highbrow impression on twentieth century analytic philosophy has been transformative. He brought lasting options within the philosophy of language and philosophical common sense. simply as vital, even though, is Kaplan's method of doing philosophy; beneficiant yet incisive, his profoundly interactive kind mentored numerous generations of scholars, a lot of whom give a contribution to this quantity. This quantity collects new, formerly unpublished articles on Kaplan, examining a extensive spectrum of issues starting from leading edge linguistics and the philosophy of arithmetic, to metaphysics, the principles of pragmatics, and the idea of communique. With its ancient advent and private tributes, The Philosophy of David Kaplan additionally unearths a lot of Kaplan's existence and instances, highlighting the main avid gamers of analytic philosophy of the final century, and underscoring Kaplan's vast influence on modern philosophy.
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In fact, he loves them. So do I; I’d be nowhere without them. And neither would David. , for the author of ‘‘Opacity’’), or for the present me? It does not. Let there be quantification into nonextensional contexts. Let there be singular propositions. Let George IV believe of the author of The Lady of the Lake, de re, that he wrote Rob Roy, while doubting or wondering de dicto whether the author of The Lady of the Lake wrote Rob Roy. Let King George do this by believing the singular proposition about the author of The Lady of the Lake that he wrote Rob Roy while doubting the general proposition.
Language, Mind, and Knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975), 174. Being David’s student evidently carries with it certain rights and privileges—not to mention responsibilities. This page intentionally left blank Part II LOGIC AND SEMANTICS This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 4 Higher-Order Senses Terence Parsons 1. INTRODUCTION My topic today is about old-fashioned intensional logic, a topic that David Kaplan worked on a very long time ago, and one in which he is still interested.
16. Though doing so does enable us to assert such propositions. See the previous note. 17. ’ in the negative. This despite the fact that Quine sets out his example with the explicit stipulation that Ortcutt is such that Ralph believes he is a spy. 18. Cf. Keith Donnellan, ‘‘The Contingent A Priori and Rigid Designators,’’ in P. French, T. Uehling, and H. , Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977), 45–60, sec. VI, at p. 58; and 40 Life and Work In the course of my investigative research in preparation for this essay, I came across an internal departmental memo from the time that ‘‘Quantifying In’’ first appeared, in which David described the piece in these words: ‘‘ ‘Quantifying In’ contains almost everything (of a non-technical nature) I have thought of concerning oblique contexts over a period of six or eight years.