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Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (Hardcover)
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Keith Donnellan, Emeritus of UCLA, is one of the major figures in
20th century philosophy of language, a key part of the highly
influential generation of scholars that included Hilary Putnam,
Saul Kripke, and David Kaplan. Like many of these philosophers, his
primary contributions were published in article form rather than
books. This volume presents a highly focussed collection of
articles by Donnellan. In the late sixties and early seventies, the
philosophy of language and mind went through a paradigm shift, with
the then-dominant Fregean theory losing ground to the "direct
reference" theory sometimes referred to as the direct reference
revolution. Donnellan played a key role in this shift, focusing on
the relation of semantic reference, a touchstone in the philosophy
of language and the relation of "thinking about" - a touchstone in
the philosophy of mind. The debates around the direct reference
theory ended up forming the agenda of the philosophy of language
and related fields for decades to come, and Donnellan's
contributions were always considered essential. His ideas spawned a
scholarly debate that continues to the present day. This volume
collects his key contributions datng from the late 1960's through
the early 1980's, along with a substantive introduction by the
editor Joseph Almog, which disseminates the work to a new audience
and for posterity.
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