'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
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Reference and Definite Descriptions, , Keith S., Donnellan, The Philosophical Review, 1966
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Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics, , Keith S., Donnellan, Academic Press, 1978,
Further reading
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"Descriptions," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy