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    Harvey Deutsch

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    Harvey Deutsch is a contemporary analytic philosopher working primarily in philosophy of language and metaphysics. His work engages questions about propositional content, the semantics of sentences, and the nature of what is expressed or denoted by linguistic items. He has contributed to debates surrounding structured propositions and the relationship between syntactic form and semantic content.

    Notable Achievements

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    Developed arguments against identifying the shared denotation of sentences with the propositions those sentences express

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    Contributed to debates on propositional content and the metaphysics of meaning

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    Engaged with structured proposition theory and its rivals in philosophy of language

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    Philosophy of Language

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    The shared denotation of sentences (1) and (5) cannot be the propositions expressed by each sentence

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