Naming with necessity part of the dissertation portfolio modality, names and descriptions. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Saul kripke is a philosopher and logician and emeritus professor at princeton. View notes kripkelecture 1 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. View notes kripkelecture3 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. View notes kripke lecture 1 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. The first lecture provides a brief historical survey of the.
A rigid designator t rigidly designates an object o just in case in every possible world it. Kripke accepts a principle of quantified modal logic with identity called the necessityofidentity. Saul kripkes archive on the cuny philosophy commons. Kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity sentences as examples of the necessary a posteriori. And i really liked it, at least the first two lectures as well as parts of the addenda and the intro. In a part of lecture i not reprinted in martinich, he says. However, since kripke set that topic aside in naming and necessity, and perhaps because there has not yet been enough time for critical responses, noonan sets the topic aside as well. 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. They are in opposition, as quine and kripke generally are on interpreting modal logic, and much of what is related to it. Rigid designators are defined as those picking out the same object in all possible worlds, so unsurprisingly quine and kripke do not see eye to eye on this issue in particular. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the national library of australia.
Naming and necessity, lecture iii note added dec 21, 2005. If the speaker is called a, the theses that the supporter of the descriptive theory is committed to are as follows kripke, oasy. This is the thesis that the following is a logical truth. His early masterpiece, naming and necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent.
Saul a kripke naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. In addition to the central themes in philosophy of language, it has important ramifications for philosophy. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Second lecture, for the rejection of the description theory for fixing reference and defining natural. Naming and necessity, lecture i professor jeeloo liu saul kripke. Kripkes defense of 3, the necessity of identity, stems from his anticounterpart theory. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman.
Saul kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a halfcentury and more. A statement is epistemically possible iff there is a world in which, as far as our experiences go. A kripke structure is basically a graph having the reachable states of the system as nodes and state transitions of the system as edges. A prioricity and qualitatively identical situations 4. 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. For if the meaning of a name is exhausted by what it refers to then the sentences aa and ab will if.
For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical nec. Yet kripke argues that in the case of naming, where a word somehow relates to an extralinguistic individual object, most of his colleagues got it all wrong. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. The use of kripke s schema as a reduction principle volume 42 issue 2 d. After a short initial overview in chapter 1, perhaps more easily appreciated by more experienced readers, noonan turns in chapter 2 to. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
It also contains a labeling of the states of the system with. Wang lu, theories of meaning, in frontiers of philosophy in china, 3. I reconstructed the first half from notes that i made in preparing the original post. Naming and necessity a return to mill kripke proposes a millian theory of names, according to which proper names dont have senses. If you have a suggestion for our next book, message the moderators. From kripkes naming and necessity michigan state university. Philosophy 5 lecture 26 kripkes wittgenstein on rules and. There are stronger and weaker brands of necessity corresponding to. 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. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. Saul kripkes naming and necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under.
Kripkes view about essential properties has implications for his views about language. Philosophy 5 lecture 08 kripkes naming and necessity ii. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. 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. In lecture i, kripke introduced the notion of rigid designation. Pdf gottlob frege may be considered as the first intellectual giant in thephilosophy of language. Reference and existence, saul kripke s john locke lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic naming and necessity. 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.
Tarski and kripke philosophy of logic and language ht 201617 jonny mcintosh jonathon. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Read download naming and necessity pdf pdf download. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. Kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity. In particular, suppose that some event e is in fact a headache. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Lecture v and the first part of lecture vi give us the first outing of the material in kripke s jusifiably famous speakers reference and semantic reference, first published in 1977. Naming and necessity i really enjoyed reading kripkes naming and necessity.
The use of kripkes schema as a reduction principle the. Simple descriptivism the wideranging effects of kripkes work in naming and necessity are difficult to measure. Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity i. Kripke also thinks that certain physical and phenomenal properties are essential properties of whatever has them. He claims there is an inherent problem in the fregean notion of sense. For doctors, a secondgeneration antipsychotic might sound like a newer, better, more advanced option. But first, i need to explain some terminological distinctions. A conflation in freges notion of sense kripkes response to fregean theories. Aug 05, 2017 philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity i. Given the commonsense assumption that words possess distinctive meanings e. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from. The inconclusiveness of kripke s argument agaimst the identity theory richard double in the widelyread papers naming and necessity 1 and identity and necessity,2 saul kripke develops an argument against the mindbody identity theory, relying crucially on the doctrine of the essential painfulness of pains.
New search eresources user lists feedback help collection delivery times visitor update. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Centigrade, have already been given as exam ples, and other examples will be given later in these. The third lecture is sadly poorly written and argued someone else already commented on it in this stream below, i agree with that reader. Naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence.
At the very end of naming and necessity, a landmark lecture on the theory of proper names. It is interesting to see how much of the material in the 1977 paper was already contained in the john locke lectures. 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. Originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively. 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. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. Saul kripke at the mathematics genealogy project saul kripke, genius logician, a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Kripke, 9780631128014, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Saul kripke s archive on the cuny philosophy commons. Identifying the two, he supposes that both are given by. Naming and necessity, lecture 1 weeks 23 the origins of contemporary philosophy of language. 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.
The received view in analytic philosophy, dating back to the turn of the century works by frege and. The quizzes will test your command of the readings andor lecture material. Naming and necessity a conflation in freges notion of sense frege should be criticized for using the term sense in two senses. In this post ill try to describe what i found to be the most interesting ideas in the book. How do kripkes rigid designators and the necessity of. Introduction to naming cos 316 lecture 5 amit levy 1. A basic characterization of rigid designation, its interest, and the. Lecture iii goes on to focus on two important further classes of such claims.
Starred items are more introductory, and good places to start. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and. Saul kripkes naming and necessity consists of revised transcriptions of three lectures given at princeton university in 1970. But if a name s associated descriptions only fix the reference, but dont provide the semantic content, of a name, we will be able to resist this unpalatable conclusion. Although i will usually give the quizzes at the beginning of class, they can occur anytime during our class meeting. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wderanging. Second annual saul kripke lecture by john burgess on the necessity of origin at the cuny graduate center, november th, 2012. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity.
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