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Michael Devitt (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the City University of New York in New York City. His primary interests include philosophy of language philosophy of mind metaphysics and epistemology. His current work involves the philosophy of linguistics foundational issues in semantics the semantics of definite descriptions and demonstratives semantic externalism and scientific realism.He is a noted proponent of the Causal theory of reference.