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Naming and Necessity

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher :
Release Date : 1980
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015049700019
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

Download Naming and Necessity PDF Full or another Format written by Saul A. Kripke and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. 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 necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. 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 consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity

Author : Christopher Hughes
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2004-01-15
ISBN 10 : 0191544000
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (544 users)

Download Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity PDF Full or another Format written by Christopher Hughes and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity. He clears up some common misunderstandings of Kripke's views on rigid designation, causality and reference, the necessary and the contingent, the a posteriori and the a priori. Through his engagement with Kripke's ideas Hughes makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on, inter alia, the semantics of natural kind terms, the nature of natural kinds, the essentiality of origin and constitution, the relative merits of 'identitarian' and counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality, and the identity or otherwise of mental types and tokens with physical types and tokens. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.

Naming, Necessity and More

Author : Jonathan Berg
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-03
ISBN 10 : 9781137400932
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (137 users)

Download Naming, Necessity and More PDF Full or another Format written by Jonathan Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.

Naming, Necessity and More

Author : Jonathan Berg
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-03
ISBN 10 : 9781137400932
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (137 users)

Download Naming, Necessity and More PDF Full or another Format written by Jonathan Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.

The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy

Author : Jaysankar Lal Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-09-22
ISBN 10 : 9781474245074
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (474 users)

Download The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy PDF Full or another Format written by Jaysankar Lal Shaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using Indian classical thought to approach and understand Western philosophy. By expanding, reinterpreting and reclassifying concepts and views of Indian philosophers, Shaw applies them to the main issues and theories discussed in contemporary philosophy of language and epistemology. Carefully constructed, this volume of his collected writings, shows the parallels Shaw draws between core topics in both traditions, such as proper names, definite descriptions, meaning of a sentence, knowledge, doubt, inference and testimony. It captures how Shaw uses the techniques and concepts of Indian philosophers, especially the followers of the Navya-Nyaya, to address global problems like false belief, higher order knowledge and extraordinary perception. Exploring timeless ideas from Indian thought alongside major issues in contemporary philosophy, Shaw reveals how the two traditions can interact and throw light on each other, providing better solutions to philosophical problems. He has also reflected on modern issues such as freedom, morality and harmony from the classical Indian thought. Featuring a glossary and updates to his writings,The Collected Writings of Jaysankar Lal Shaw: Indian Analytic and Anglophone Philosophy also includes new work by Shaw on the relationship between Indian and analytic philosophy today.

Rationalized Epistemology

Author : Albert A. Johnstone
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
ISBN 10 : 079140787X
Pages : 386 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (47 users)

Download Rationalized Epistemology PDF Full or another Format written by Albert A. Johnstone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines skeptical problems originally raised by Descartes and Hume and currently discussed in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. It answers the basic skeptical questions concerning the existence of what is now unperceived, the reality of what is perceived, and the existence of an external world. Johnstone shows how the recently proposed solutions to these skeptical problems-- pragmatic, coherentist, linguistic, and new-Kantian -- do not and cannot work, and how only a return to foundational investigation on the terrain of the radical skeptic is adequate to the task. His analyses make for a valuable summary of every significant argument brought against skepticism. In the course of his investigation, Johnstone probes a number of topical issues: knowledge, rationality, the nature of meaning, nonverbal thinking, the bodily nature of the thinking self, parasitism, the role of the tactile-kinesthetic body in feeling and belief, and the necessary role of free will in epistemology.

Weaving

Author : J. K. Swindler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : 0847676676
Pages : 234 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (676 users)

Download Weaving PDF Full or another Format written by J. K. Swindler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moderate realist account of the whole range of issues facing contemporary analytic philosophy, J. K. Swindler aims to fill the gap in the literature between extreme realism and extreme nominalism. He discusses such fundamental concepts as existence, property, universality, individual, and necessity; analyzes the paradoxes of negative existentials and the substitutivity of co-referential terms; and defends objectivity in philosophy. The study moves through three phases: first, an argument that objective philosophical truth is attainable; second, an extended realist analysis of fundamental ontological concepts; and finally, a demonstration of advantages of this ontology over leading alternatives. Weaving: An Analysis of the Constitution of Objects will be of interest to all philosophers working in contemporary philosophy, philosophy of language, logic, and metaphysics, and will serve as an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in metaphysics.

Philosophical Logic

Author : Sybil Wolfram
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 10 : 0415023181
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (23 users)

Download Philosophical Logic PDF Full or another Format written by Sybil Wolfram and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic introduction to the subject which addresses questions of truth and meaning, providing a basis for much of what is discussed elsewhere in philosophy. Up-to-date and comprehensive.

MAKING SENSE OF DEVELOPMENT

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-04
ISBN 10 : 9781135200572
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (135 users)

Download MAKING SENSE OF DEVELOPMENT PDF Full or another Format written by Marjorie Garber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Beyond Rigidity

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-03
ISBN 10 : 0198033214
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (33 users)

Download Beyond Rigidity PDF Full or another Format written by Scott Soames and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity

Author : Harold Noonan
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-09
ISBN 10 : 9781135105167
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (135 users)

Download Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity PDF Full or another Format written by Harold Noonan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and Russell, and the anti-essentialist metaphysics of Quine. In this invaluable guidebook to Kripke's classic work, Harold Noonan introduces and assesses: Kripke's life and the background to his philosophy the ideas and text of Naming and Necessity the continuing importance of Kripke's work to the philosophy of language and metaphysics. 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. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy.

Naming and Necessity

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Release Date : 1986
ISBN 10 : OCLC:927911375
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (92 users)

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Against the Current

Author : Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
ISBN 10 : 9783110322002
Pages : 461 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (11 users)

Download Against the Current PDF Full or another Format written by Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology. The first part contains critical assessments and somewhat deviant renderings of the work of two seminal philosophers, Frege and Husserl, as well as of the young Carnap and Kripke. The second part contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics and semantics, including arguments on behalf of Platonism in the philosophy of mathematics, a defense of second-order logic, a new definition of analyticity, a sketch of a semantics for mathematical statements and a critique of Kripke’s possible world semantics for modal logic.

Proper Names

Author : Stefano Predelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-16
ISBN 10 : 9780191083990
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (191 users)

Download Proper Names PDF Full or another Format written by Stefano Predelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proper Names explores the aims and scope of the Millian approach to the semantics of proper names. Stefano Predelli covers the core semantic aspects of Millianism, and develops them against the background of an independently motivated pre-semantic picture, grounded on the distinction between meaning and use. Accordingly, the volume defends Millianism from certain popular misconceptions and criticisms, it highlights its explanatory potential, and it tackles a variety of traditional philosophical problems from its viewpoint. In particular, Predelli discusses the relationships between co-referential names, the issue of non truth-conditional meaning for proper names, the role of onomastics in a theory of the use of names, the phenomenon of empty names, cases of so-called fictional names and names from myth and false scientific theories, and apparently predicative uses of proper names.

New Idols of the Cave

Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 0719050936
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (5 users)

Download New Idols of the Cave PDF Full or another Format written by Christopher Norris and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad-based critical survey of recent anti-realist arguments in the philosophy of science, cultural theory, hermeneutics, the sociology of knowledge and the interpretation of quantum-mechanics.

The Politics of Praise

Author : William W. Young
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0754656462
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (656 users)

Download The Politics of Praise PDF Full or another Format written by William W. Young and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Praise argues that the redemptive potential of naming God lies in how this event transforms friendship. It breaks new ground by tracing the connections between naming God and friendship in the work of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Derrida. Advancing an innovative reading of Aquinas on the divine names, the book explores how Dionysius' mysticism shapes Aquinas' appropriation of Aristotle's ethics, then retraces how Derrida's reading of religion renders possible an alternative conception of friendship. These explorations lead to a surprising convergence between Aquinas and Derrida on the conditions of friendship.

Reason, Revelation and Peace

Author : Ashok Vohra
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Release Date : 2020-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9788120842755
Pages : 332 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (12 users)

Download Reason, Revelation and Peace PDF Full or another Format written by Ashok Vohra and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor k. Satchidananda Murty, one of modern India’s leading philosophers, passed away in his native village of Sangamjagarlamudi in Andhra Pradesh in 2011, after a stellar career during which he advanced knowledge rather than opinion. The Indian Philosophical community, and especially Ashok Vohra, is to be congratulated for producing a dynamic engagement with philosophy. I had known Murty for more than twenty years. I interacted with him several times. When I once asked him where he stood philosophically, he was candid enough to say that he ‘Oscillates between Sankar and Ramanuja’. The essays in this book amply demonstrate that he was a man of many parts but as the allusion to his mystical experiences in his book The Realm of Between reveals, he was also more than the sum of his parts; that while willing to transcend the limits of reason when required. Thus ‘revelation and reason’ characterize not just the title of one of his famous books but in a sense, his life, and this fact renders this collection uniquely relevant for our times. I therefore enthusiastically recommend this book not only to all those interested in the philosophy of Professor Murty, or in Indian Philosophy, or in philosophy in general but to all those interested in contemporary philosophy in the broadest sense.