Keith Donnellan

Keith Donnellan

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.

Selected publications

* cite journal
first =Keith S.
last =Donnellan
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =1966
month =July
title =Reference and Definite Descriptions
journal =The Philosophical Review
volume =75
issue =3
pages =281–304
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url =http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8108%28196607%2975%3A3%3C281%3ARADD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
doi =10.2307/2183143
*cite book
last =Donnellan
first =Keith S.
editor =Peter Cole (ed.)
title =Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics
edition =
year =1978
publisher =Academic Press
location =New York
id =
pages =47-68
chapter =Speaker Reference, Descriptions, and Anaphora

Further reading

* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descriptions/#4.2 "Descriptions," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]


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