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Diana Ackerman

Disciplines:
epistemology
philosophy/philosophy of language

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on the semantics of proper names and essential properties.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the post-Kripkean analysis of essential properties and the semantics of de re modality.

Historical Influences

Saul Kripke

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Language

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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