Gareth Evans

✶May 12, 1946

†August 10, 1980

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Michael Gareth Justin Evans was a British philosopher who made substantial contributions to logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is best known for his posthumous work The Varieties of Reference (1982), edited by John McDowell. The book considers different kinds of reference to objects, and argues for a number of conditions that must obtain for reference to occur. Evans died prematurely at age 34 of cancer.

British philosopher (1946–1980)

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