L. Linsky (U. C./Berkeley) and H. P. Grice

Speranza

L. Linsky received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

He held teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana.

He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv) and the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association, and a recipient of the medal of the Université de Liège (Belgium).

He served as chair of the Department at the University of Chicago.

Linsky's teaching and research fell into two areas:

-- the philosophy of language
-- and the history of early Analytic Philosophy.

He published several dozen articles and five books:

Semantics and the Philosophy of Language (edited with an Introduction, this book has been translated into Italian and has been in print continuously for fifty years since its publication),

Reference and Modality (edited with an Introduction, this book has been translated into Italian),

Referring (translated into French),

Oblique Contexts, Names and Descriptions (translated into Spanish).

His most recent publications are on the early philosophy of Bertrand Russell

("The Unity of the Proposition", and "Russell's 'no-classes' Theory of Classes".)

While in retirement he continued to teach classes and direct workshops on Wittgenstein.
Leonard Linsky passed away on August 26, 2012.