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Ideas of David Kaplan, by Text

[American, b.1933, Pupil of Carnap. Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.]

1967 Transworld Heir Lines
p.100 p.100 11973 Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several
p.100 p.100 11972 Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties
p.89 p.89 11967 Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense
p.97 p.97 11969 Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically
p.97 p.97 11970 Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity
p.98 p.98 11971 The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars
1970 Dthat
p.144 14080 Are causal descriptions part of the causal theory of reference, or are they just metasemantic? [Schaffer,J]
1975 How to Russell a Frege-Church
II p.214 11989 For Russell, expressions dependent on contingent circumstances must be eliminated
IV p.217 11990 'Haecceitism' says that sameness or difference of individuals is independent of appearances
IV p.217 9668 'Haecceitism' is common thisness under dissimilarity, or distinct thisnesses under resemblance
IV p.219 11991 If quantification into modal contexts is legitimate, that seems to imply some form of haecceitism
1989 Demonstratives
p.2 14894 Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]
p.5 14700 'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Schroeter]