The Philosophy of David Kaplan.

C Acknowledgements. About the contributors. I. Life and Work. 1. Joseph Almog: "David Kaplan - The Man at Work";. 2. C. Anthony Anderson: "David Kaplan's Essential Attributes and Formal Aspects of His Work". 3. Nathan Salmon: "Quantifying Into The Unquantifiable / The L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Almog, Joseph
Other Authors:	Leonardi, Paolo
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subjects:	Kaplan, David > (David Benjamin), > 1933- Philosophy, American > 20th century. Philosophie américaine > 20e siècle. PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern. Philosophy, American 1900-1999 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

PART I: LIFE AND WORK; 1 David Kaplan: The Man at Work; 2 David Kaplan: Formal Aspects of His Work; 3 Quantifying into the Unquantifiable: The Life and Work of David Kaplan; PART II: LOGIC AND SEMANTICS; 4 Higher-Order Senses; 5 Some Logical Properties of Natural Language Quantifiers; 6 The Lesson of Kaplan's Paradox about Possible World Semantics; 7 Possible Worlds Semantics and the Liar: Refiections on a Problem Posed by Kaplan; 8 The Role of Variables; PART III: LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT; 9 Reference, Inference, and the Semantics of Pejoratives; 10 Frege's Hierarchy: A Puzzle.