Editing David Kaplan (philosopher) (section)

==Education and career==
Kaplan began as an undergraduate at [[UCLA]] in 1951, admitted on academic probation "owing to poor grades."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Philosophy of David Kaplan|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|pages=27–8}}</ref> While he started as a music major due to his interest in [[jazz]], he was soon persuaded by his academic counselor Veronica Kalish to take the [[logic]] course taught by her husband [[Donald Kalish]].<ref name=":0" /> Kaplan went on to earn a BA in [[philosophy]] in 1956 and a BA in [[mathematics]] in 1957,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lancog.com/david-kaplan.html|title=CFUL – Centre of Philosophy University of Lisbon|access-date=2017-08-13|archive-date=2017-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813181450/http://www.lancog.com/david-kaplan.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> continuing in the [[UCLA Department of Philosophy|department of philosophy]] as a graduate student. He was the last doctoral student supervised by [[Rudolf Carnap]], receiving his [[PhD]] in 1964 with a thesis entitled ''Foundations of Intensional Logic''. His work continues the strongly formal approach to philosophy long associated with UCLA (as represented by mathematician-logician-philosophers such as [[Alonzo Church]] and [[Richard Montague]]).

In most years, Kaplan teaches an upper division course on [[philosophy of language]], focusing on the work of either [[Gottlob Frege]], [[Bertrand Russell]], or [[P. F. Strawson]]. He also teaches a related course on [[Saul Kripke|Kripke's]] [[Naming and Necessity]]. His lectures often focus on selected paragraphs from Russell's "[[On Denoting]]" as well as Frege's "[[On Sense and Reference]]."

In 2022 he received the [[Rolf Schock Prizes|Rolf Schock Prize]] in the category of "Philosophy".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kva.se/en/pressrum/pressmeddelanden/arkitekt-pianist-filosof-och-matematiker-far-arets-rolf-schockpriser |title=Rolf Schock Prize 2022 |access-date=2022-03-24 |archive-date=2022-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325075546/https://www.kva.se/en/pressrum/pressmeddelanden/arkitekt-pianist-filosof-och-matematiker-far-arets-rolf-schockpriser |url-status=dead }}</ref>