Naming, Necessity and More: Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke

ISBN-13: 9781349486243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 245 str.

J. Berg

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: NAMING 1. Why Rigidity?; Hanoch Ben-Yami 2. Tradition and Language; Meir Buzaglo PART II: NECESSITY 3. Over-Assignment of Structure; Eli Dresner 4. Modal Paradox; Teresa Robertson 5. Personal Identity: What's the Problem?; Nathan Salmon PART III: MEANING 6. A Fregean Look at Kripke's Modal Notion of Meaning; Gilead Bar-Elli 7. Semantics in the Twilight Zone; Jonathan Berg PART IV: SKEPTICISM 8. Kripke's Infinity Argument; Oron Shagrir 9. Kripke's Paradox of Meaning; Paul Horwich 10. Skeptical Arguments in Hume and Wittgenstein; Mark Steiner PART V: LOGIC 11. The Road to Gödel; Saul Kripke Index

O autorze

Gilead Bar-Elli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Hanoch Ben-Yami, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary Meir Buzaglo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Eli Dresner, Tel Aviv University, Israel Paul Horwich, New York University, USA Saul Aaron Kripke, CUNY Graduate Center Teresa Robertson, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nathan Salmon, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Oron Shagrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Mark Steiner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel