Keith Donnellan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Keith Sedgwick Donnellan was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Donnellan contributed to the philosophy of language, notably to the analysis of proper names and definite descriptions. He criticized Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions for overlooking the distinction between referential and attributive use of definite descriptions.
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- Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966) (1651)
- Language, Mind, and Knowledge (1977) (372)
- Proper names and identifying descriptions (1970) (230)
- Speaking of Nothing (1974) (205)
- THE CONTINGENTA PRIORI and RIGID DESIGNATORS (1977) (152)
- Speaker References, Descriptions and Anaphora (1978) (105)
- Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again (1968) (103)
- Necessity and Criteria (1962) (67)
- Knowing What I am Doing (1963) (33)
- Kripke and Putnam on Natural Kind Terms (2012) (25)
- There Is a Word for that Kind of Thing: An Investigation of Two Thought Experiments (1993) (23)
- Substitution and Reference (1966) (22)
- Belief and the Identity of Reference (1989) (17)
- DESCRIPTIONS AND DISCOURSE MODELS (2004) (14)
- Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (2012) (13)
- Substances as Individuals (1973) (10)
- Causes, Objects, and Producers of the Emotions (1970) (8)
- Genuine Names and Knowledge by Acquaintance (2010) (7)
- A Note on the Liar Paradox (1957) (4)
- 16. SPEAKING OF NOTHING (1983) (0)
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