Editing David Kaplan (philosopher) (section)

{{Short description|American philosopher and logician}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|region           = [[Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[Contemporary philosophy]]
| name                      = David Kaplan
| birth_date                = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1933|09|17}}
| birth_place               =
| nationality               = American
| education                 = [[University of California, Los Angeles]] <small>([[Bachelor's degree|BA]]; [[PhD]], 1964)</small>
| school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
| institutions              = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| main_interests            = [[Philosophy of language]], [[logic]], [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]]
| notable_ideas             = [[Two-dimensionalism]],<ref>[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/two-dimensional-semantics/ Two-Dimensional Semantics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)]</ref> [[semantic]] analysis of [[indexical]]s and [[demonstratives]], "quantifying in", Kaplan's intensional paradox<ref>Andrew Bacon, John Hawthorne & Gabriel Uzquiano, "Higher-order free logic and the Prior-Kaplan paradox", ''Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' '''46'''(4–5): 493–541 (2016).</ref> 
| influences       = [[Gottlob Frege]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Rudolf Carnap]], [[Richard Montague]], [[Alonzo Church]], [[Saul Kripke]]
| influenced       = [[John Perry (philosopher)]], [[Nathan Salmon]], [[C. Anthony Anderson]]
| spouse                    = Renée Singer Kaplan (1956–present)
| awards                    = {{unbulleted list | Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]] {{small| (1996)}} | Corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] {{small|(2007)}}}}
| website                   = [http://philosophy.ucla.edu/person/david-kaplan/ Faculty webpage]
| thesis_title      = Foundations of Intensional Logic
| thesis_url        = https://philpapers.org/rec/KAPFOI
| thesis_year       = 1964
| doctoral_advisor   = [[Rudolf Carnap]]
|doctoral_students=Eliot Michaelson}}

'''David Benjamin Kaplan''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|æ|p|l|ən}}; born September 17, 1933) is an [[Americans|American]] [[philosopher]]. He is the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy at the [[UCLA Department of Philosophy]]. His philosophical work focuses on the [[philosophy of language]], [[logic]], [[metaphysics]], [[epistemology]] and the philosophy of [[Gottlob Frege|Frege]] and [[Bertrand Russell|Russell]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://philosophy.ucla.edu/person/david-kaplan/|title = David Kaplan - Faculty}}</ref> He is best known for his work on [[demonstrative]]s, [[proposition]]s, and [[reference]] in [[Extensional|intensional]] contexts.  He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]] in 1983<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucla.edu/about/awards-and-honors/faculty/american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences|title = American Academy of Arts and Sciences &#124; UCLA}}</ref> and a Corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2007/kaplan.cfm |title=David Kaplan - British Academy |access-date=2015-07-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707002818/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2007/kaplan.cfm |archive-date=2015-07-07 }}</ref>