David Kaplan (philosopher)

David Kaplan
David Kaplan
Born	September 17, 1933
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BA; PhD, 1964)
Spouse	Renée Singer Kaplan (1956–present)
Awards	Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1996); Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2007);
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Foundations of Intensional Logic (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Rudolf Carnap
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.

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