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'''Nathan U. Salmon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|æ|m|ən}}; [[né]] '''Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu''';
== Life and career ==
Salmon was born January 2, 1951, in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] to a working-class family of [[Sephardi Jews]] of [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews|Spanish]]-[[Turkish people|Turkish]] heritage. He is the grandson of archivist Emily Sene (née Emily Perez) and [[oud]] player Isaac Sene. Salmon attended Lincoln Elementary School in [[Torrance, California|Torrance]], California through eighth grade, where he was a classmate and friend of the [[child prodigy]], [[James Newton Howard]]. Salmon graduated from [[North High School (Torrance)]] in 1969.
The first person in his family to go to college, Salmon graduated from [[El Camino College]] (1971) and from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (B.A. 1973, M.A. 1974, [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] 1979). At [[UCLA Department of Philosophy|UCLA]] he studied with [[Tyler Burge]], [[Alonzo Church]], [[Keith Donnellan]], [[Donald Kalish]], [[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], [[Saul Kripke]], and [[Yiannis Moschovakis]]. Salmon was assistant professor of [[philosophy]] at [[Princeton University]] from 1978 to 1982. In 1984, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723045240/http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=104 Council of Graduate Schools] awarded him the [http://www.cgsnet.org/cgs-gustave-o-arlt-award-humanities Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities], for his book, ''Reference and Essence'' (1981), which was based on his UCLA doctoral dissertation. His second book, ''Frege's Puzzle'' (1986), was selected by [[Scott Soames]] for a literary website as one of the best five books on the philosophy of language.<ref>Scott Soames, "Best Five Books on the Philosophy of Language," ''The Browser'', October 15, 2010. The other selections are monographs by [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Gottlob Frege]], [[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]], and [[Saul Kripke]].</ref>
Salmon is currently Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], and has been teaching there since 1984. He has also taught at [[Princeton University]], UCLA, the [[University of California, Riverside]], the [[University of Southern California]], and was a regular visiting distinguished professor at the [[Graduate Center|City University of New York Graduate Center]] from 2009 to 2012.
== Philosophical work ==
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===Existence===
Salmon provided direct-reference accounts of problems of [[nonexistence]] and of names from fiction.<ref>See, e.g., ''Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning'', Oxford University Press, 2005.</ref> Salmon argues, directly contrary to [[Immanuel Kant]],<ref>''[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Kant/cpr/ Critique of Pure Reason] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707011421/http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Kant/cpr/ |date=2009-07-07 }}'' book II c.3 sec. 5, [http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/cprframe.pl?query=18ideal.htm
By contrast, Salmon maintains that "Sherlock Holmes exists" is literally true, whereas "Sherlock Holmes was a detective" is literally false. According to Salmon, [[Sherlock Holmes]] is a fictional character, a kind of [[abstract entity]], created by author [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], and the fiction is a story, or a collection of stories, which are about that very character but are literally false. Holmes really exists, but is only depicted as a detective in the fiction. In the fiction, Holmes is a detective; in reality, Holmes is merely a fictional detective.
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===Essentialism===
Salmon is also known in [[metaphysics]] for, among other things, his analysis of arguments for modal [[essentialism]]—the doctrine that some properties of things are properties that those things could not fail to have (except perhaps by not existing). In particular, Salmon is known for his development and defense of a ''[[reductio ad absurdum]]'' argument, using a [[Paradox of the heap|sorites]]-like problem ([[slippery slope]]), against nearly universally accepted [[modal logic]] systems S4 and S5, which he argues commit "the fallacy of necessity iteration," sanctioning the invalid inference from the observation that a proposition ''p'' is a [[logical truth|necessary truth]] to the conclusion that it is a necessary truth that ''p'' is a necessary truth. He defends his view by exposing a mistake in a standard argument favoring S5, while arguing that there are not only [[possible world]]s—thought of as maximal scenarios that might have obtained—but in addition classically consistent ''[[impossible world]]s'': maximal scenarios that could not obtain.<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/#Ess "Natural Kinds"]</ref>
===Identity===
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=== Articles ===
*"Assertion and Incomplete Definite Descriptions" (1982) ''Philosophical Studies'' 42:
*"Being of Two Minds: Belief with Doubt" (1995) ''Noûs'' 29 (1): 1-20.
*"Demonstrating and Necessity" (2002) ''Philosophical Review'' 111 (4): 497-537
*"How ''Not'' to Become a Millian Heir" (1991) ''Philosophical Studies''
*"How ''Not'' to Derive Essentialism From the Theory of Reference" (1979) ''[[Journal of Philosophy]]'' 76:
*"How to Become a Millian Heir" (1989) ''Noûs'' 23:
*"How to Measure the Standard Metre" (1988) ''Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society'' 88:
*"Identity Facts" (2002) ''Philosophical Topics'' 30:
*"Impossible Worlds" (1984) in ''Analysis'' 44:
*"The Limits of Human Mathematics" (2001) ''Noûs'' 15:
*"The Logic of What Might Have Been" (1989) ''Philosophical Review'' 98: 3-34.
*"Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints" (1986) ''Midwest Studies in Philosophy'' 11:
*"Naming, Necessity, and Beyond" (2003) ''Mind'' 112 (447):
*"Nonexistence" (1998) ''Noûs'' 32 (3):
*"On Content" (1992) ''Mind'' 101 (404):
*"On Designating" (2005) ''Mind'' 114 (456):
*"The Pragmatic Fallacy" (1991) ''Philosophical Studies''
*"A Problem in the Frege-Church Theory of Sense and Denotation" (1993) ''Noûs'' 27(2):
*"Reflexivity" (1986) ''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic'' 27:
*"Relative and Absolute Apriority" (1993) ''Philosophical Studies'' 69(1):
*"Tense and Singular Propositions" (1989) in ''Themes From Kaplan''. Oxford University Press, New York.
*"A Theory of Bondage" (2006) ''The Philosophical Review'' 115 (4):
*"Trans-World Identification and Stipulation" (1996) ''Philosophical Studies'' 84(2-3):
*"Wholes, Parts, and Numbers" (1997) in ''Philosophical Perspectives, 11, Mind, Causation, and World'', James Tomberlin (ed). Blackwell, Boston.
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