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Lawrence Powers

Disciplines:
logic
philosophy/philosophy of language

Summary

American philosopher who has worked on the logic of indexical expressions and theories of reference.

Core Contribution

Contributed to the analysis of indexical reference and the logic of self-locating beliefs.

Historical Influences

David Kaplan

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Philosophy of Language

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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