David Kaplan, an attorney for Northwestern University
David Kaplan, a journalist at [1] US News & World Report
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DavidKaplan received his PhD in philosophy from UCLA in 1964, where he was the last graduate student mentored by Rudolf Carnap.
Among Kaplan's most influential contributions to the philosophy of language is his semantic analysis of indexicals and demonstratives, which is outlined (in progressively greater detail) in "Dthat," "On The Logic of Demonstratives," "Demonstratives," and "Afterthoughts".
Kaplan's insights center around two key distinctions, which may be seen as made in response to the inability of Frege's semantics to deal with context-sensitivity in language.
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