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Keith Donnellan (born 1931) is a contemporary philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has made important contributions to the philosophy of language, most notably to the analysis of proper names and definite descriptions. For instance, Donnellan criticized Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions for overlooking the distinction between referential and attributive use of definite descriptions.[1]
Publications
- Donnellan, Keith S. (July 1966). "Reference and Definite Descriptions". The Philosophical Review 75 (3): 281–304. doi:. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8108%28196607%2975%3A3%3C281%3ARADD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B.
- Donnellan, Keith S. (1977). "The Contingent A Priori and Rigid Designators". Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2): 12–27.
- Donnellan, Keith S. (1978). "Speaker Reference, Descriptions, and Anaphora". in Peter Cole (ed.). Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press. pp. 47–68.
See also
References
- ^ Lycan, William G., Philosophy of Language - a contemporary introduction (2000), pp. 26-30
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