Anti-Cartesian theories of reference flourished in analytic philosophy

Evidence

The concept of reference indeed became in the 1970s one of the main preoccupations of English-speaking philosophers, largely as a result of the work of Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam and Keith Donnellan. What is striking about these discussions is their refusal to base their accounts of reference on any notion of the subject with direct access even to the contents of its consciousness. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 326

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the analytic-continental divide over the subject was overstated; connects to reading against Jameson’s periodization of poststructuralism as uniquely decentering the subject.