Rod Bertolet is a contemporary analytic philosopher whose work focuses on philosophy of language, reference, and the metaphysics of propositions. He has contributed to debates concerning propositional existence across possible worlds and the semantics of names and descriptions.
Argued that propositional truth in a possible world does not require propositional existence in that world
Contributed to debates on the metaphysics of singular propositions and their modal status
Published work on the semantics of names, reference, and descriptivist theories