Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind

Keith Donnellan is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at UCLAJoseph 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

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.

• Editors' Introduction ; 1. Reference and Definite Descriptions (The Philosophical Review 1966, 75: 281-304). ; 2. Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again (The Philosophical Review 1968, 77: 213-15). ; 3. Proper names and Identifying Descriptions (Synthese 1970, 21: 335-58). ; 4. Speaking of Nothing (The Philosophical Review 1974, 83: 3-31). ; 5. Speaker Reference, Descriptions and Anaphora (in Syntax and Semantics, Vol 9. Pragmatics. P. Cole, ed., New York Academic Press, 1978, pp. 47-68). ; 6. The Contingent 'A Priori' and Rigid Designators (Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1977, 2: 12-27). ; 7. Kripke and Putnam on Natural Kind Terms (in Knowledge and Mind: Philosophical Essays, Ginet, Carl (ed), Oxford UP 1983, pp. 84-104).