Routledge philosophy guidebook to Kripke and Naming and necessity / Harold Noonan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noonan, Harold W., author.

Series:

Routledge philosophy guidebooks.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kripke, Saul A., 1940-2022.

Kripke, Saul A.

Necessity (Philosophy).

Reference (Philosophy).

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Guidebook to Kripke and Naming and necessity

Kripke and Naming and necessity

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 an

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introductory overview; The problem situation; Kripke's philosophical development; The main contentions; 2 The background; Frege on sense; Russell on descriptions and names; The Frege-Russell synthesizers; Quine; 3 Naming; The target; Giving the meaning, fixing the reference and rigid designation; The modal argument; The debate over the modal argument; The arguments against the cluster theory qua theory of reference-fixing; The historical chain picture; 4 Necessity; The intelligibility of essentialism

The rejection of the problem of transworld identity and the critique of counterpart theoryThe essential properties of individuals; The necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; 5 Extensions; Natural kind terms as proper names of kinds; The necessity of theoretical identifications; The illusion of contingency and mind-brain identity; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-10515-4

0-203-07380-0

1-135-10516-2

9780203073803

OCLC:

882242496