Leonard Linsky is an American philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

. He is known for work on the theory of reference, and also as a historian of early analytical philosophy.

He is cited as an example of the "orthodox view" in the theory of reference. He questioned the "intensional isomorphism" concept of Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was an influential German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism....

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Works

Authored Volumes

• Referring (1967)
• Names and Descriptions (1977)
• Oblique Contexts (1983)

Edited Volumes

• Semantics and the Philosophy of Language: A Collection of Readings (1952)
• Reference and Modality (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (1971)

Further reading

• William Tait
  William W. Tait
  William Walker Tait is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he served as a faculty member from 1972 to 1996, and as department chair from 1981 to 1987....
  
  (editor) (1997), Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein; Essays in Honor of Leonard Linsky
• "Leonard Linsky”, article in Dictionary of Contemporary American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2005)