Keith Donnellan

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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.

[edit] Selected publications

• Donnellan, Keith S. (July 1966). "Reference and Definite Descriptions". The Philosophical Review 75 (3): 281–304. doi:10.2307/2183143. 
• Donnellan, Keith S. (1978). "Speaker Reference, Descriptions, and Anaphora", in Peter Cole (ed.): Syntax and Semantics 9: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 47-68. 

[edit] Further reading

• "Descriptions," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy