Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Keith Donnellan (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, UCLA) ,
Joseph Almog (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA) ,
Paolo Leonardi (, University of Bolonga)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 21.10cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 14.50cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780199857999
ISBN 10: 0199857997
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 26 July 2012
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The book is highly recommended to lower and upper undergraduate students that have some interest in the contemporary philosophy of language. Since he advanced some of the necessary topics to understand the contemporary philosophy of language, it is essential to graduate students and scholars that would like to have in a unique volume the main papers of Donnellan about his proposal of the direct reference theory. --Juan J. Colomina, metapsychology online reviews The volume makes easily available to a new generation of students and philosophers classical pieces of one of the most preeminent figures of analytic philosophy of the last century. --Antonio Capuano, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Author Information
Keith Donnellan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at UCLA Joseph Almog is Professor of Philosophy at UCLA and is the editor of Themes from Kaplan, Cogito: Descartes and Thinking the World, and What Am I: Descartes and the Mind Body Problem Paolo Leonardi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bolonga
