Nathan Salmon (born Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu in 1951) is a philosopher of the analytical tradition in Philosophie of the language and in the Métaphysique.

Biography

Nathan Salmon was born the January 2nd 1951 with Los Angeles parents Sépharades. He is the grandson of the archivist Emily Sene and the musician Isaac Sene whose work was studied by the ethnomusicologist Edwin Seroussi and is currently preserved with the University of California, in the department of ethnomusicology. Nathan Salmon studied in Lincoln School, in North High School like in El Camino College in Torrance (California) but also with the the University of California (UCLA). Self-educated guitarist, Salmon learned the majority from what it knows of the music with his friend, the musician wonder James Newton Howard.

During its years of studies to the the University of California Nathan Salmon worked with the most famous philosophers of this time: Tyler Burge, Alonzo Church, Keith Donnellan, Donald Kalish, Saul Kripke, Yiannis Moschovakis, and mainly David Kaplan. In 1979 Nathan Salmon becomes doctor of Philosophie whereas he is professor-assistant with the Université of Princeton. Its first book Reference and Essence (its thesis) is crowned by Gustave O. Arlt Award in 1984. Nathan Salmon is currently a professor of philosophy distinguished with the the University of California.