Terence Parsons

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Name Terence Parsons		Role Philosopher

Books Nonexistent objects, Events in the Semantic, Indeterminate Identity, Canopy relative work Similar People Saul Kripke, David Lewis, John Perry, Rudolf Carnap, Alonzo Church

Terence Parsons (born 1939) is an American contemporary philosopher of the analytic tradition. Parsons is also a Professor at UCLA in its Department of Philosophy.

Heavily influenced by Alexius Meinong, he wrote Nonexistent Objects (1980), which dealt with possible world theory in order to defend the reality of nonexistent objects.

Works

Nonexistent Objects, Yale University Press, 1980.

Events in the Semantics of English, MIT Press, 1990.

Indeterminate Identity, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Articulating Medieval Logic, Oxford University Press, 2014.

References

Terence Parsons Wikipedia

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