Leonard Linsky

Leonard Linsky
Born	(1922-11-13)November 13, 1922 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	August 27, 2012(2012-08-27) (aged 89)
Education
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	A Study in Meaning: the Interchangeability of Expressions in Non-extensional Contexts (1949)
Philosophical work
Institutions	University of Chicago

Leonard Linsky (November 13, 1922 – August 27, 2012) was an American philosopher of language. He was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago.

Philosophical work

Linsky was best known for work on the theory of reference, and also as a historian of early analytical philosophy. He is often cited as an example of the "orthodox view" in the theory of reference. He questioned the "intensional isomorphism" concept of Rudolf Carnap.

Books

Authored

• Referring, London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1967.
• Names and Descriptions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
• Oblique Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Edited

• Semantics and the Philosophy of Language: A Collection of Readings, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1952.
• Reference and Modality (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

Further reading

• William Tait (ed.), Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein; Essays in Honor of Leonard Linsky, Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, 1997.
• "Leonard Linsky”, article in Dictionary of Contemporary American Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005.