Essentialism, modality and the direct reference theory. Kripke distinguishes among names, definite descriptions, and designators. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. A second look by joseph agassi telaviv university and york university, toronto abstract saul kripkes study of the truth conditions for modal and for subjunctive conditional statements is meant to validate essentialism. Read download naming and necessity pdf pdf download. Respondents were informed that they were free to withdraw at a. 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. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity. In naming and necessity, kripke says rigid designators is a term that designates the same object in all possible worlds.
Swinburne on divine necessity religious studies cambridge. Exactly one person was last among the great philo sophers of antiquity. Demonstratives can be used as rigid designators, and free variables can be. In drastic contrast to quines paper, kripkes lectures provided, among other things, a compelling defense of the metaphysical concepts of necessity and. In naming and necessity, saul kripke discusses the nature of names and how they are derived. Among analytic philosophers, naming and necessity is widely considered. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. In beyond rigidity, scott soames strengthens kripkes attack, while. An example of determining the reference of a name by description, is the discovery of the planet neptune. Through various sorts of talk the name is spread from link to link as if by a chain.
It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it. Because ordinary proper names are rigid designators, he said, any true identity sentence of the form n is m will be a necessary truth. In his famous work naming and necessity, saul kripke presents an argument against the materialists identity theory of mind. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these. Since the descriptions ordinarily associated with names. At the beginning of naming and necessity he says, the basic problem for any view such as mills or kripkes own view, is how we can. Exactly one person was last among the great philo sophers. If one expression is a rigid and another is not, they cannot mean the same thing. By cicero i shall mean the man who denounced catiline. If we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. Naming and necessity lecture 2 i to every name or designating expression there corresponds a cluster of properties. That work is extraordinarily rich, but we will be focusing our attention on just two parts of it. Iyyun, the jerusalem philosophical quarterly, 44, 1995, 24372. Naming and necessity 193 we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator.
Find a summary of this and each chapter of naming and necessity. I think of some way of describing it uniquely and then i go through, so to speak, a sort of mental ceremony. Therefore, although the definite description the winner of the 1968 u. In naming and necessity, one argument i presented against the description. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying. 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. First, ivet argued that a popular view about how names get their referenc in general doesnt apply. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. Reprmred by permtsston of the pubbshers from naming and necessity by saul a.
Naming and necessity lecture 1 summary course hero. Nov 15, 2006 an icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 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. Harvard university press and basil blackwell, 1980. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wideranging implications for other problems in philosophy that traditionally might be. For him, the basic characteristic of a proper name. Naming and necessity ii causalhistorical theory of. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. View notes kripkelecture3 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. Thus, on july 1 st, 1884 coues presented his new system of trinomial nomenclature in a meeting in the new natural history museum. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface.
Contingent a priori examples omitted in our excerpts the standard meter stick is one meter long naming and necessity, p. The pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. The unfinished semantic agenda of naming and necessity in naming and necessity saul kripke undermined descriptive analyses of names by showing that names are rigid designators. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. If a name refers to an object o, it refers to o with respect to every possible world in which o exists. But kripkes enterprise in naming and necessity goes beyond the spectrum of a. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wideranging.
Kripke cambridge, mass harvard university press, 1972, 1980 by saul a. Blackwell, 1980 or wiggins, david sameness and substance renewed cambridge. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Other articles where naming and necessity is discussed. Chapter summary for saul kripkes naming and necessity, lecture 1 summary. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. The unfinished semantic agenda of naming and necessity writer for complaints, use another form. Kripkes insights about proper names, follows in his n aming without necessity 1986. 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. Of coursei waspointing to awooden tablein the room. How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations notes on polanyi great transformation the frogs kripkenotes summary naming and necessity naming and necessity naming and necessity silas marner by george eliot summary naming and necessity policy paradox the art of political decision making. Apr 25, 2018 this is article about free 50 naming a guardian for your child template picture rating. Richard swinburne from mentalphysical identity to substance dualism, in peter van inwagen and dean zimmerman eds persons oxford.
Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. Naming and necessity 107 whats been accomplished, if anything, up to now. Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free prime shipping. Free 50 naming a guardian for your child template picture. The coronavirus covid19 response ict case repository itu. I will ar gue that we should put the nec essity back into naming.
It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and. How are we to track this object from the water free situation to the. The notions of necessity and possibility are interdefinable. That identity statements between what we call names in actual language are necessary.
I hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Kripke claims that i and ii are selfevident theses of philosophical logic independent of natural language. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, or the history of analytic philosophy. Distinguished professor of philosophy and computer science, cuny graduate center. Once again, we leave free what happens if there is no such t. The covid 19 demands cooperation among government, csos, local business. Then the above explanation of the essentialaccidental distinction is enough to show that.
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. Kripkes naming and necessity some theses of naming and necessity 1. Rather, modal metaphysical knowledge is built on intuition of philo sophical categories and. It mixed up naming and meaning, violating all that had been achieved in establishing a system free nomenclatural authority. Alvin plantinga the nature of necessity new york ny. Recall that he established a similar thesis about identity sentences involving names. Naming and necessity 79 what picture of naming do these theses 15 give you. Kripke naming and necessity a priori and a posteriori. Argument and intuition in kripkes naming and necessity chapter 2. Naming and necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the. Aristotle on necessities and needs royal institute of.
For the british, this was clearly mixing up, negating, the original lockian perspective. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties. It is clear that he thinks that we can give a similar explanation of the necessity of theoretical identities. The routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity is an ideal starting point for anyone coming kripkes work for the first time. This cross sectional study was conducted among the general population of. Pdf on sep 15, 2007, zsofia zvolenszky published naming with necessity find. Social watcher offers its service for free and this means that the cost of running this service is handled by the proj. Itwould be a situation in which there was some other woman who had many of the properties that are in fact e of elizabeth. One of the central theses of naming and necessity is that proper names are.
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