In certain philosophical circles necessity is viewed as the root of much, if not all, philosophical error. And then he says that he is discontented with this. Kripkes naming and necessity and wittgenstein on rules and private language. It has usually been taken for granted in the one case by kant that synthetic a priori judgments were possible, and in the other case in. Originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively. Kripke began with a consideration of the fregean analysis of the meaning of a sentence as a function of the referents of its parts. 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 highschool student, and summarized in kripke 1963. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. 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. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical nec. We can give two arguments for the necessity of true.
Naming and necessity, lecture i professor jeeloo liu saul kripke. Pdf on nov 1, 2005, consuelo preti and others published kripke. Pdf download naming and necessity free unquote books. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. This means it makes the assumption that many fundamental. Naming, necessity, and apriority part i consists of the first four chapters. Even were that true, the name would not be synonymous with the descnption, but would be used to name an object which we pick out by the contingent fact that it satisfies a certain description. Scholars have recently established that the iliad and the odyssey were not, after all, written by homer. Since the descriptions ordinarily associated with names. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. Arial times new roman symbol default design saul kripke, identity and necessity an apparent paradox the paradox with proper names identities in science rigid vs. It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under.
Kripke on naming and necessity university of toronto. Kripke believes that we must cross off thesis 6 as incorrect. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. Kripkes refutation of identity theory a rigid designator. Saul kripke argues that any such identity statement where a mental state is said to be identical to a physical state is false based solely on the structure of the statements. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. 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.
Kripke is nearly universally acknowledged as one of the foremost living philosophers. A response to saul kripke in his book, naming and necessity, the american philosopher saul kripke argues, among other things, that the traditional belief that a priori knowledge must be knowledge of necessary truths and a posteriori knowledge must be knowledge of contingent truths is false. Kripke 192 names as rigid designators one of the intuitive theses i will maintain in these talks is that names are rigid designators. Causation and computation work in this trend was naming and necessity 1980, by the american philosopher saul kripke born 1940, based on lectures he delivered in 1970.
This question is phrased by analogy with the way kant phrased his question how are synthetic a priori judgments possible. 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 pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. 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. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new. He made important contributions to several areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Naming and necessity pdf, in particular, both thought that there was no fundamental difference between ordinary proper names and definite descriptions. 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 pdf new york at gettysburg book, in particular, both thought that there was no fundamental difference between ordinary proper names and. But kripke would deny that a speaker would have to know this essence, or to rely upon any other nontrivial criteria distinguishing you from world to world, in order to refer to you by way of a rigid designator kripke 1980, pp. The first lecture provides a brief historical survey of the. 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. And so, even though we can imagine a case where the man who wrote these works. Time and development in kripke s naming and necessity. Saul kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Click on document kripke, saul naming and necessity. Kripke 200 definition of a rigid designator lets call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it. Saul kripke, in full saul aaron kripke, born november, 1940, bay shore, long island, new york, u. When these lectures naming and necessity were first published, they stood analytic philosophy on its ear. Saul kripke s discussion of the necessary aposteriori in naming and necessity and identity and necessity in which he lays the foundation for distinguishing epistemic from metaphysical possibility, and explaining the relationship between the two is, in my opinion, one of the.
In naming and necessity saul kripke argues against typetypeidentity theory by the use of an argument from philosophy of language. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Kripke if there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Synthese library monographs on epistemology, logic, methodology, philosophy of science, sociology of science and of knowledge, and on the mathematical methods of social and behavioral. Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. Naming and necessity a conflation in freges notion of sense frege should be criticized for using the term sense in two senses. If one expression is a rigid and another is not, they cannot mean the same thing. Kripke harvard university press cambridge, massachusetts copyright c 1972, 1980 by sau.
Kripke, one of the most distinguished living philosophers and logicians, who has made significant and wideranging contributions to set theory, modal logic, mathematical logic and philosophy. Kripke distinguished professor in the programs of philosophy and computer science saul kripke center cuny graduate center. 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. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. You can read naming and necessity online using button below. For better or worse, both kripke s substantive views and his new philosophical tools have become extremely influential in almost every subdiscipline of philosophy. A problem which has arisen frequently in contemporary philosophy is. In both cases, ithas usually been taken for granted in fife one case by kant that synthetic a priori judgements were possible, and in the other case in contemporary,d. Saul kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Established in 2007 at the cuny graduate center, the saul kripke center houses the archives of professor saul a.
Considerable time has elapsed, and i have come to realize that any extensive revision or expansion would delay the appearance of a separate, less expensive edition of naming and necessity indefinitely. Saul kripkes work has had a tremendous impact on philosophy in the last thirty years and continues to. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke, j. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Kripke, 9780631128014, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Kripke wants to demonstrate that if one believes in the identity of mental and brain states, one needs to accept the theorys full consequence, namely that there cannot be brain states which are not mental. Saul kripkes naming and necessity is widely acknowledged as one of the most important works of twentieth century philosophy. The standard meter stick is one meter long naming and necessity, p.
Kripkes naming and necessity some theses of naming and necessity 1. A term t is a rigid designator just in case in every possible world it designates the same object quoting from kripke, naming and necessity. For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning. Download pdf kripke free online new books in politics.
Identifying the two, he supposes that both are given by. Many have argued that a socalled causal description is guaranteed to pick out the intuitively correct referent of a name, at least if kripke s own suggestions about how the reference of a name is determined are correct. Saul kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a halfcentury and more. Yet one of the most famous and rewarding works of said analytic philosophy, naming and necessity, is a breezy romp through many of the most major problems of linguistic and metaphysical analysis. Kripke delivered the john locke lectures necessitty philosophy at oxford in is the molecular formula of water essential or possible. I suppose its interesting for people who already accept notions like necessity and the a priori, and for those who necessuty that the notion of meaning is clear enough to lean on for any substantive philosophical work. Synthese library monographs on epistemology, logic, methodology, philosophy of science, sociology of science and of knowledge, and on the mathematical methods of social and behavioral sciences, vol 40. Naming and necessity ii causalhistorical theory of reference. Timothy williamson, blurb praise for kripkes reference and existence. Asking fundamental questions how do names refer to things in the world. Briefly, kripke argues that necessary and contingent are metaphysi. They were actually written by another author, of the same name.
His early masterpiece, naming and necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Here the latter must be given primary emphasis, but the former will not be entirely neglected. Saul kripke his glass, and there may be another man in the room who does have. Professor saul kripke, justice antonin scalia, miss ruth barcan, new york city. Saul kripke s naming and necessity consists of revised transcriptions of three lectures given at princeton university in 1970. Click download or read online button to get saul kripke book now.
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. Saul kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. It is structured in four chapters leaving aside the introduction and conclusion. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. His most celebrated work, naming and necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it read more. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364.
You have read excerpts from his most seminal work, a series of lectures given in 1970, transcribed and published as naming and necessity. Saul kripke, american logician and philosopher who was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic anglophone philosophy. In short, it is difficult to do serious academic philosophy today without taking positions on the sorts of things kripke is up to in naming and necessity. Due to issue, you must read naming and necessity online. Kripke proposes a millian theory of names, according to which. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium.
If a name refers to an object o, it refers to o with respect to every possible world in which o exists. The consequence of this is that no contingent identitystatements can be made by means of proper names. Saul kripke s naming and necessity, one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, serves as the backdrop for this assortment of essays by fundamental specialists, on topics ranging from naming and necessity to which suggests and skepticism. Kripkes defense of 3, the necessity of identity, stems from his anticounterpart theory. Read download naming and necessity pdf pdf download. Reprmred by permtsston of the pubbshers from naming and necessity by saul a. Christopher hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of kripke s central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence, natural kinds. But of course just because they associate this description with the name, they do not use the name to refer to oppenheimer. A rigid designator t rigidly designates an object o just in case in every possible world it. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. Kripkes view about essential properties has implications for his views about language. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. 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. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice.