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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 Aaron Kripke
- 1980
Apr 21, 2020 · A book by the philosopher Saul Kripke on the topics of naming, necessity, and reference. The book is available for free download, borrow, and streaming from the Internet Archive.
Kripke’s Naming and Necessity: Lecture I. 5.1. The example of the standard meter. 5.2. An extension of Kripke’s point: indexicals. 5.3. Objections to the contingent a priori. 5.3.1. The definition of ‘a priori’. 5.3.2. Is every contingent fact knowable a priori? 1. THE FREGE-RUSSELL PICTURE OF NAMES (26-32)
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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...
“ Naming and Necessity represents a turning-point in the development of modern philosophy. It showed how confusions in the philosophy of language had blocked progress in metaphysics, and it provided a model of systematic philosophical theorizing informed by innovations in logic.”
Naming and Necessity has had a 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 naming, and of identity.
Overview. Fingerprint. Abstract. Kripke first became known for technical work on modal logic, the logic of necessity and possibility, much of it done in the late 1950s as a high-school student, and summarized in Kripke (1963).
