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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: J. Berg, Jonathan Berg
• Assisted by: Berg (Editor), J Berg (Editor), J. Berg (Editor), Jonathan Berg (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349486243
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48624-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Sprachphilosophie, B, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Logic, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Skepticism, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, necessity