Leonard Linsky
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Leonard Linsky (1922 – August 27, 2012)[1] was an American philosopher. He was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago. He was known for work on the theory of reference, and also as a historian of early analytical philosophy.[2]
He is cited as an example of the "orthodox view" in the theory of reference.[3] He questioned the "intensional isomorphism" concept of Rudolf Carnap.[4]
Contents
Works
Authored Volumes
- Referring, London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1967.
- Names and Descriptions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
- Oblique Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Edited Volumes
- Semantics and the Philosophy of Language: A Collection of Readings, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1952.
- Reference and Modality (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
See also
Notes
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- ↑ Nathan U. Salmon, Reference and Essence, Princeton, NJ: Princeton. University Press 1981, p. 11.
- ↑ Avrum Stroll, Twentieth-century Analytic Philosophy, Stroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, p. 83.
Further reading
- William Tait (ed.), Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein; Essays in Honor of Leonard Linsky, Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, 1997.
- "Leonard Linsky”, article in Dictionary of Contemporary American Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005.
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