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David Benjamin Kaplan ( / ˈkæplən /; born September 17, 1933) is an 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 Frege and Russell. [3]
Professor. Area of Interest: Logic, Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Frege, and Russell. E-mail: kaplan@humnet.ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-6043 Office: 342 Dodd Hall. Office Hours: Conference call for spring quarter 2020. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays: 2:00-3:30 PM on Zoom. Education. Ph.D., UCLA (1964) Publications. Articles.
Mar 1, 2009 · David Kaplan's intellectual influence on 20th-century analytic philosophy has been transformative. He introduced lasting innovations in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic.
David Kaplan, the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy, received his B.A. in philosophy and mathematics in 1956 and Ph.D. from UCLA in 1964, and has been a philosophy professor at UCLA since then. His interests are in logic, language, metaphysics, epistemology, Frege, and Russell.
David Kaplan is a regular faculty at University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Philosophy of Language and Logic and Philosophy of Logic.
Apr 4, 2022 · David Kaplan, the Hans Reichenbach Professor of Scientific Philosophy, was awarded the 2022 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy on 24th of March. The Rolf Schock Prize is awarded every other year to laureates from various areas including science, the visual arts, and music.
David was the first philosopher who brought home to me—as I am sure to many others—that philosophy is hard physical work. The setting was David's Oxford Locke lectures. The local notables, led by the brilliant, witty, and elegantly dressed Gareth Evans (who was to meet an untimely death a few weeks later) all sat in an arc at the higher ...
