Keith Donnellan of UCLA is one of the founding fathers of contemporary philosophy of language, along with David Kaplan and Saul Kripke. Donnellan was and is an extremely creative thinker whose insights reached into metaphysics, action theory, the history of philosophy, and of course the philosophy of mind and language. This volume collects the best critical essays on Donnellan's forty-year body of work. The pieces by such noted philosophers as Tyler Burge, David Kaplan, and John Perry, discuss Donnellan's various insights particularly offering new readings of his views on language and mind.

Joseph Almog is Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. Paolo Leonardi is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bologna.

Acknowledgements Introduction, Joseph Almog Donnellan at Cornell, John Perry Referential Uses and the Foundations of Direct Reference, Joseph Almog The Ground Zero of Semantics, Antonio Capuano Donnellan's Blocks, John Perry Donnellan on the Necessary A Posteriori, Ervin Eaker Two Ways of Being a (Direct) Referentialist, Andrea Bianchi Having in Mind, Howard Wettstein Referring De Re, Tyler Burge An Idea of Donnellan, David Kaplan