David Kaplan (philosopher)
David Kaplan | |
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| Born | September 17, 1933 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Renée Singer Kaplan (1956–present) |
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| Education | |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA; PhD, 1964) |
| Thesis | Foundations of Intensional Logic (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Carnap |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Doctoral students | Eliot Michaelson |
| Main interests | Philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology |
| Notable ideas | Two-dimensionalism, semantic analysis of indexicals and demonstratives, "quantifying in", Kaplan's intensional paradox |
| Website | Faculty webpage |
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. 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 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.