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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
First, we stipulate that ‘names’ shall be names as ordinarily conceived, not Russell’s ‘logically proper names’; second, we regard descriptions, and their abbreviations, as having sense. Google Scholar
- Saul Aaron Kripke
- 1980
names by speakers, and Frege consistently uses definite descriptions in explaining the sense of proper names, which indicates that he thought that there was some very close relationship between the sense of names and the sense of descriptions. So, to understand how the classical picture of proper names worked, we have to
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The general unifying theme is that Naming and Necessity is helping philosophy to recover a Golden Age, by freeing it from the strictures coming from the empiricist and Kantian traditions and reconnecting it to the world and the objects that populate it.
Under the influence of Kripke's later work philosophers have come to distinguish several conceptions of necessity and possibility, in a manner to be described below; but Kripke's early technical work was not tied to any special conception. Rather, it provides tools applicable to many conceptions.
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NAMING AND NECESSITY 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification (if necessary) after they have read the main text. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely self-contained. The ideas in Naming and Necessity evolved in the early sixties -most of the views were formulated in about 1963-64. Of
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...
