Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. In 19634, kripke concluded that it can be demonstrated that names in ordinary language are rigid designators, and therefore that identities are necessary. In this guidebook to kripkes classic work, harold noonan introduces and assesses. Necessity routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and. Yet one of the most famous and rewarding works of said analytic philosophy, naming and necessity, is a breezy romp through many of the most major problems of linguistic and metaphysical analysis. Semantical considerations on modal logic naming and necessity download semantical considerations on modal logic naming and necessity ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Naming, necessity and more explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke. In the first introduction to his philosophy written expressly for general students, g. If one expression is a rigid and another is not, they cannot mean the same thing. Kripke goes on to discuss two ways of generating true essentialist claims. Kripke naming and necessity problems associated with simple descriptivism the most common way out of this difficulty is to say really it is not a weakness in ordinary language that we cant substitute a particular description for the name.
Isbn 9780631128014 naming and necessity direct textbook. If youre looking for a free download links of naming, necessity and more. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity. Synthese library monographs on epistemology, logic, methodology, philosophy of science, sociology of science and of knowledge, and on the mathematical methods of social and behavioral sciences, vol 40. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Saul kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a halfcentury and more. Click download or read online button to get saul kripke book now. Naming and necessity lays out a way of thinking about the relation between language and the world which permits just as formal and rigorous a treatment of notions like meaning, truth and reference as had russells and freges. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading naming, necessity and more. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
His early masterpiece, naming and necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Kripkes refutation of identity theory a rigid designator. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of. Pdf naming and necessity download full pdf book download. Necessity lectu res, david kaplan suggested t hat proper names were directly referential. Kripkes naming and necessity some theses of naming and necessity 1. Kripke if there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several major essays have now appeared in print, most recently in his longawaited collection. Essentiality of origins 111114 kripke suggests as a plausible essentialist principle the view that if a material object has its origin in a certain bit of matter, then it could not have existed without having that origin.
If a name refers to an object o, it refers to o with respect to every possible world in which o exists. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical nec. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new. On january 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 saul kripke delivered three lectures at princeton university.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Nobody would have believed that the neatnesswhat kripke calls the marvellous internal coherenceof frege. Fitch provides a thorough exposition of kripkes ideas. Saul kripke argues that any such identity statement where a mental state is said to be identical to a physical state is false based solely on the structure of the statements. The transcript of another lecture covering some of the same material is. Those ways of reading it are interesting, but i think that what kripke is saying is, in the end, quite simple, which is why the book has enjoyed such lasting popularity. Click download or read online button to semantical considerations on modal logic naming and necessity book pdf for free now. Kripke, naming and necessity in harman and davidson, eds. Semantical considerations on modal logic naming and necessity. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke kindle edition by berg, jonathan.
Kripke felt little sympathy for this dark doctrine uniquely identifying properties can coincide contingently, but objects cannot be contingently identical. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. Naming, necessity, and more explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke. He made important contributions to several areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. 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. However, a modicum of understanding about that work is needed for any understanding of what is interesting about rigid designators. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of kripkes. For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Hence, before moving on to refinements in characterizing the notion of rigidity, consider a famous application made by saul kripke, who coined the word rigid designator. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. Saul kripke, american logician and philosopher who was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic anglophone philosophy.
Causation and computation work in this trend was naming and necessity 1980, by the american philosopher saul kripke born 1940, based on lectures he delivered in 1970. The pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. Naming and necessity by saul kripke was first published in book form in 1980 and consists mainly of three lectures given at princeton university, an overview, an essay on the problem of names, and. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke. Read routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity by harold noonan available from rakuten kobo. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. The new theory of reference kripke, marcus, and its. The routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity is an ideal starting point for anyone coming kripkes work for the first time. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Naming and necessity a conflation in freges notion of sense frege should be criticized for using the term sense in two senses. Kripke began with a consideration of the fregean analysis of the meaning of a sentence as a function of the referents of its parts. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and.
References in brackets in the text are to page numbers of that book. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. Saul kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Saul kripkes naming and necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. Harvard university press, 1980 philosophy 172 pages. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364.
In the lectures he argued, amongst other things, that many names in ordinary language referred to objects directly rather than by means of associated. Find 9780631128014 naming and necessity by kripke at over 30 bookstores. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. Saul kripkes naming and necessity, one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, serves as the backdrop for this collection of essays by leading specialists, on topics. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings. After discussing proper names of individuals kripke extends his apparatus to a discussion of what he calls names of natural kinds. Harold w noonan saul kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Saul kripkes work has had a tremendous impact on philosophy in the last thirty years and continues to dominate key debates in the field.