It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it. Saul kripke at the mathematics genealogy project saul kripke, genius logician, a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Click download or read online button to get saul kripke book now. 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. Saul kripke argues throughout naming and necessity that his picture of how names refer handles natural language better than alternative theories. Naming and necessity is a book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher saul kripke, at princeton university in, in which he dealt with the debates of.
This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface. Saul kripkes naming and necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from identity and necessity give a sketch of kripkes argumentation against the identity theory and discuss it. Saul kripke project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. A great deal of the books brilliance lies in the astonishing simplicity of his solution to some of philosophys most fiendish puzzles and the ease with which he lectures reveals the powerful grasp he.
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Saul kripke s archive on the cuny philosophy commons. 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. His most celebrated work, naming and necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. A great deal of the books brilliance lies in the astonishing simplicity of his solution to some of philosophys most fiendish puzzles and the ease with which he lectures reveals the powerful grasp he has on the issues he describes. Kripke and the mindbody problem i regard the mindbody problem as wide open and extremely confusing. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained.
Semantical considerations on modal logic naming and necessity. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the graduate center of the city university of new york and emeritus professor at princeton university. Kripke cambridge, mass harvard university press, 1972, 1980 by saul a. Naming and necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher saul kripke, at princeton university in 1970, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy of language. Saul and his two sisters, madeline and netta, attended dundee grade school and omaha central high school. It includes one paper by kripke himself and each of the other papers touches, in some way, on kripkes work. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Kripke, naming and necessity in harman and davidson, eds. Saul kripke is the oldest of three children born to dorothy k. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of kripke s. His early masterpiece, naming and necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and. First, for a given speaker gottlob frege and bertrand russell associate a name with a cluster of qualities that they believe apply to the referent of a name.
The transcript of another lecture covering some of the same material is. The routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity is an ideal starting point for anyone coming kripkes work for the first time. 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. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. There we saw that we could give the following test for the rigidity of a term.
From kripkes naming and necessity michigan state university. If youre looking for a free download links of naming, necessity and more. He made important contributions to several areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Buy a cheap copy of naming and necessity book by saul a. Kripke harvard university press cambridge, massachusetts copyright c 1972, 1980 by sau. Kripke this chapter analyzes robert nozicks theory on knowledge. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. However, some definite descriptions, such as the successor of 2, are rigid designators. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. Names, necessity, and identity, by christopher hughes. Saul kripke, genius logician a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Saul kripke begins the second lecture by reiterating the various theses of the fregerussell perspective and related cluster concept of naming.
In 1970, saul kripke gave a series of three lectures at princeton university. Saul kripke his glass, and there may be another man in the room who does have champagne in his glass, the speaker intended to refer, or maybe, in some. Click on document kripke, saul naming and necessity. Saul kripke, american logician and philosopher who was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic anglophone philosophy. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of. Saul kripke, identity and necessity driving question. 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. Richard rorty kripke versus kant lrb 4 september 1980.
Read download naming and necessity pdf pdf download. For example, we take it to be the case that it is contingent that the first postmaster of the united states is identical with the inventor of bifocals i. Nobody would have believed that the neatness what kripke calls the marvellous internal. In certain philosophical circles necessity is viewed as the root of much, if not all, philosophical error. 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. Reprmred by permtsston of the pubbshers from naming and necessity by saul a. The modal argument 4849, 7177 in lecture i, kripke introduced the notion of rigid designation. While the mainstream theories of reference inspired by frege and russel are more sophisticated, they have numerous counterintuitive consequences.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. The papers collected in this volume descend from that conference. Naming and necessity 193 we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. Kripkes most important philosophical publication, naming and necessity 1980, based on transcripts of three lectures he delivered at princeton in 1970, changed the course of analytic philosophy. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy. Saul kripke, in full saul aaron kripke, born november, 1940, bay shore, long island, new york, u. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity.
References in brackets in the text are to page numbers of that book. Saul kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. 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. Kripke, 1972, 3942 this argument, together with kripkes arguments for the distinctness of necessity and apriority, gave us our contemporary notion of metaphysical necessity.
Naming and necessity lecture 2 summary course hero. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke pdf,, download ebookee alternative successful tips for a best ebook reading. The paradigm example of nonrigid designators, since the work of of kripke, has been standard definite descriptions, such as the brightest nonlunar object in the evening sky. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it read more. In reading naming and necessity, it is clear that saul kripke stands in a similar position. Since the 1960s, kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, modal logic, philosophy of language. In 1999, the university of haifa awarded saul kripke an honorary degree and hosted a conference in his honour.
Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. Saul kripkes work has had a tremendous impact on philosophy in the last thirty years and continues to. 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 nec.
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