Naming And Necessity

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674598466

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Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614762552

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Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

Author : Harold Noonan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135105150

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity by Harold Noonan Pdf

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking fundamental questions – how do names refer to things in the world? Do objects have essential properties? What are natural kind terms and to what do they refer? – he challenges prevailing theories of language and conceptions of metaphysics, especially the descriptivist account of reference, which Kripke argues is found in Frege, Wittgenstein and Russell, and the anti-essentialist metaphysics of Quine. In this invaluable guidebook to Kripke's classic work, Harold Noonan introduces and assesses: Kripke's life and the background to his philosophy the ideas and text of Naming and Necessity the continuing importance of Kripke's work to the philosophy of language and metaphysics. The Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity is an ideal starting point for anyone coming Kripke's work for the first time. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195145281

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Beyond Rigidity by Scott Soames Pdf

Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions.

Author : Christopher Hughes
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191544000

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Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity by Christopher Hughes Pdf

Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity. He clears up some common misunderstandings of Kripke's views on rigid designation, causality and reference, the necessary and the contingent, the a posteriori and the a priori. Through his engagement with Kripke's ideas Hughes makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on, inter alia, the semantics of natural kind terms, the nature of natural kinds, the essentiality of origin and constitution, the relative merits of 'identitarian' and counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality, and the identity or otherwise of mental types and tokens with physical types and tokens. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.

Author : Stephen P. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015046363886

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Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds by Stephen P. Schwartz Pdf

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199875610

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Philosophical Troubles by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume. Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

Author : Gottlob Frege
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Basic Laws of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege Pdf

Author : D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401025577

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Semantics of Natural Language by D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman Pdf

"The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes." --

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199928385

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Reference and Existence by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

This volume collects Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures, which were delivered in Oxford in 1973.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781446545560

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Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with various other semantical methods used in traditional philosophy or by contemporary authors. These other methods have one characteristic in common. They all regard an expression in a language as a name of a concrete or abstract entity. In contradistinction, the method here proposed takes an expression, not as naming anything, but as possessing an intension and an extension. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : G. W. Fitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489177

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Saul Kripke by G. W. Fitch Pdf

Saul Kripke is one of the most original and creative philosophers writing today. His work has had a tremendous impact on the direction that philosophy has taken in the last thirty years and continues to dominate some of its most fundamental aspects. Given Kripke's importance it is perhaps surprising that there is no introduction to his philosophy available to the general student. This book fills that gap. As much of Kripke's work is highly technical, the book's central aim is to provide clear exposition of Kripke's ideas in a form that is understandable to a beginning readership as well as a commentary on them that more advanced students will find useful. The book begins with a discussion of Kripke's early work on modal logic, which provides the foundation for many of his later philosophical contributions, before examining in detail Kripke's central ideas and arguments contained in Naming and Necessity. In further chapters, Kripke's work on semantic paradoxes and his theory of truth are outlined as well as his controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein's famous private language argument. Kripke's ideas are situated alongside those of his precursors and some of the most important and interesting responses to them are explored. The reader is thus able to appreciate the path-breaking nature of Kripke's contributions, how they have challenged fundamentally traditional interpretations, and how they have sparked some of the most important philosophical debates of recent years.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118972083

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller Pdf

“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Author : Arif Ahmed
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826492616

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Saul Kripke by Arif Ahmed Pdf

A student's guide to the philosophy of Saul Kripke, a widely-studied yet notoriously challenging thinker>

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139459808

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris Pdf

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.