My objection to the argument is that it relies upon a premise for which. Examine the life, times, and work of saul kripke through detailed author biographies on enotes. The modern discussion of reference begins with a revolt, led by saul kripke, against. Kripke claims that i and ii are selfevident theses of philosophical logic independent of natural language. Kripke harvard university press cambridge, massachusetts copyright c 1972, 1980 by sau. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Kripke 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. 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. Introduction saul kripke has made fundamental contributions to a variety of areas of logic, and his name is attached to a corresponding variety of objects and results. Kripke, naming and necessity in harman and davidson, eds. 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. Kripke, saul 1971 identity and necessity, in milton k. 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. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. In naming and necessity saul kripke argues against typetypeidentity theory by the use of an argument from philosophy of language. Saul kripke, identity and necessity driving question.
All other readings are now available from the course blackboard site under course materials. Saul kripke is a philosopher and logician and emeritus professor at princeton. Saul kripke, author of naming and necessity, on librarything. Widely regarded as both a brilliant mathematical logician and one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, saul kripke began a series of papers that transformed modal logicthe logic of necessity and possibilitywhile still a high school student in omaha, nebraska. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. 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. Much of his best known work deal with the logic and language.
This, then, the real menig of the idntity statement in uestion. Saul kripke resigned yesterday from his position as distinguished professor of philosophy at the cuny graduate center. Kripkes refutation of identity theory a rigid designator. Proudly powered by wordpress need help with the commons. He made important contributions to several areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Scholars have recently established that the iliad and the odyssey were not, after all, written by homer. Kripke, 1972, 3942 this argument, together with kripkes arguments for the distinctness of necessity and apriority, gave us our contemporary notion of metaphysical necessity. Naming and necessity 195 h t the thing which we saw in the evening is the thing which we saw in. 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.
January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. 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. If youre looking for a free download links of naming, necessity and more. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. Philosophical troubles is the first volume of saul kripkes collected papers. Kripke has two other arguments against the descriptive theory. 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. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. They were actually written by another author, of the same name. Originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively. Saul kripke simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kripke successfully paints a more accurate picture of how this happens than the accepted view. Identity and necessity 185 think, contrary to most recent theorists, that the reference of names is rarely or almost never fixed by means of description.
Prima facie, one can combine counterpart theory with any of the strategies. He is best known for reintroducing modal concepts, such as necessity and possibility, with his landmark works naming and necessity and identity and necessity, as well as his popularizing gottfried leibnizs notion of possible worlds as a way of analyzing the concepts of a priori, analytic, and necessary. Those ways of reading it are interesting, but i think that what kripke is saying is, in the end, quite simple, which is why the book has enjoyed such lasting popularity. For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning.
Kripkes naming and necessity early defenders of modal logic, for example c. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the graduate center of the city university of new york and emeritus professor at princeton university. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and. 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. Saul kripke born november, 1940 is an american philosopher and logician. Hence, before moving on to refinements in characterizing the notion of rigidity, consider a famous application made by saul kripke, who coined the word rigid designator. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. That identity statements between what we call names in actual language are necessary. The pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. Naming and necessity a return to mill kripke proposes a millian theory of names, according to which proper names dont have senses. It was originally to be called bandersnatches in dubuque, and other. A conflation in freges notion of sense kripke s response to fregean theories. Kripke takes it for granted that both pain and cfiber stimulation are rigid. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. 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. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. While similar allegations have been circulating in unpublished form for years, a team of philosophers from oxford university has just released a damning report claiming that they were systematically unable to reproduce the results of thought experiments reported. The work he is best known for is naming and necessity 1980. Pdf on sep 15, 2007, zsofia zvolenszky and others published naming with. Kripke began with a consideration of the fregean analysis of the meaning of a sentence as a function of the referents of its parts. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of.
Time and development in kripke s naming and necessity. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. Its not a single description, but rather a cluster, a family of properties which fixes the reference. Saul kripke was a member of the department of philosophy 19771998. Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. Saul kripke has also written groundbreaking works on the theory of truth 1975, the theory of knowledge 2011, and the semantics of fictional. Please visit the saul kripke centers new website here. There we saw that we could give the following test for the rigidity of a term. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman.
Saul kripke, american logician and philosopher who was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic anglophone philosophy. 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. Naming and necessity a conflation in freges notion of sense frege should be criticized for using the term sense in two senses. An evaluation of saul kripkes argument for property dualism thesis presented to the graduate council of texas state universitysan marcos in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree. Soames agrees with kripke about names semantic values and how they. 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. For example, we take it to be the case that it is contingent that the first postmaster of the united states is identical with the inventor of bifocals i. He lectured on logic to graduate students at mit when still a harvard undergraduate, and was elected to the harvard society of fellows upon graduation. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics o. Please visit the saul kripke centers new website here this entry is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike 4. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity sentences as. Kripke is not the first philosopher to discuss the idea behind the term he coined, but his illuminating discussions have made the importance of rigidity widely appreciated.
Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Texas state universitysan marcos august 20 supervising professor. An evaluation of saul kripkes argument for property dualism by thomas hunter chambers, b. Naming and necessity by saul kripke is a work on the subject of analytical philosophy, focused on the topic of philosophy of language. Feb 17, 2011 within the lectures in which kripke introduced rigid designators, he applied the idea to the identity statements proposed by identity theorists. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. We can give two arguments for the necessity of true. Kripke is such a brilliant mathematician, but such a poor metaphysician and linguist. Saul kripke began a series of papers that transformed modal logicthe logic of necessity and possibilitywhile still a high school student in omaha, nebraska. Kripkes complaint in naming and necessity was that while.
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. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. Schedule subject to change at the discretion of the instructor. To be clear, kripke meant for his argument to apply to claims made by both kinds of identity theorists 148, naming. An example of type 1 for aposteriori necessity is saul kripke if he exists is a. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings.
The author of naming and necessity and wittgenstein on rules and private language, he is currently distinguished professor at cuny graduate center. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. He claims there is an inherent problem in the fregean notion of sense. 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. Philosophy saul kripke naming and necessity philosophy essay. Saul aaron kripke is a philosopher and logician who have made significant contributions to. Audrey mckinney this paper concerns saul kripkes argument against type physicalism and for property dualism. And so, even though we can imagine a case where the man who wrote these works. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. Saul kripkes naming and necessity addresses how words come to point to the things in the world that they refer to. References in brackets in the text are to page numbers of that book. Buy a cheap copy of naming and necessity book by saul a.
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