First, for a given speaker gottlob frege and bertrand russell associate a name with a cluster of qualities that they believe apply to the referent of a name. The empirical study of word meanings and sentence meanings in existing languages is a branch of linguistics. Although edward steichen had exhibited some of leiters color photography at the museum of modern art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. Identity theorists have been concerned with several distinct types of identifications. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. 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. This is a reprint of the immensely successful early color 2008, which presented saul leiters remarkable body of color work to the public for the first time in book form. We argue that any natural axiomatization of kripkes theory in strong kleene logic has the same prooftheoretic strength as pkf, namely the strength of the system ra printer. If the answer is yes then a is not a rigid designator. Saul kripke s locke lectures were delivered in oxford in 1973. 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.
We refute reinhardts conjecture, and provide a direct axiomatization pkf of kripkes theory in partial logic. Movements considered will include some of the following. Kr ipke a puzzle about belief in this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief. Understanding kripke s arguments against these proposed answers gives a good idea of the sorts of challenges that proposed solutions to the problem of intentionality encounter. Saul kripke simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And, as a corollary, that any account of belief must ultimately come.
We will also study more recent work in philosophical semantics and its application to arguments in the philosophy of mind. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. The conceivability argument for dualism by saul kripke excerpted from naming and necessity, 1980 i finally turn to an all too cursory discussion of the application of the foregoing considerations to the identity thesis. Proudly powered by wordpress need help with the commons. Common sense philosophy, logical atomism, logical positivism, and ordinary language philosophy. I have thus fo llowed a very conservative policy of correction fo r the present printing. There are some descriptions which are plausibly rigid designators e. In response to a traditional view of what criteria constitutes knowledge. Robert browning18121889 the son of robert browning, a bank of england clerk, and sarah anna wiedemann, of scottishgerman descent, browning received little formal. A great deal of the books brilliance lies in the astonishing simplicity of his solution to some of philosophys most fiendish puzzles and the ease with which he lectures reveals the powerful grasp he. Russell takes proper names to be definite descriptions, and he does so in an effort to solve problems that freges account of proper names run into. Kripke is not the first philosopher to discuss the idea behind the term he coined, 1 but his illuminating discussions have made the importance of rigidity widely appreciated.
Outline of a theory of truth saul kripke the journal of. He was too short for the navy so he went to pirate school. Kripke s paper originally appeared in meaning and use, ed. Kripke semantics is a formal semantics for nonclassical logic systems created in the late s burgess, john p. Saul leiter was an american artist and early pioneer of color photography. The derivation has become rather well known, but perhaps not so well understood. 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. In 1970, saul kripke gave a series of three lectures at princeton university. Kripke s awards include a fulbright fellowship 1962, guggenheim fellowship 1968, and a fellowship from the american council of learned societies 1981.
An example of type 2 for aposteriori necessity is hesperus phosphorus. Kripke and the mindbody problem i regard the mindbody problem as wide open and extremely confusing. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that have occasionally been ad vanced in this area, but my main thesis is a simple one. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from. Kripke asks what pairs x, y could act as counterexamples, for if the objects are distinct, the antecedent is false, while if. Kripke on the distinctness of the mind from the body je. This course concerns the nature of meaning and its connection to metaphysics and epistemology. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Kripke and explore their bibliography from s saul a. This means it makes the assumption that many fundamental. Kripke, one of the most distinguished living philosophers and logicians, who has made significant and wideranging contributions to set theory, modal logic, mathematical logic and philosophy. Logic and philosophy of logic modal logic in logic and philosophy of logic.
An example of type 1 for aposteriori necessity is saul kripke if he exists is a human being. Audrey mckinney this paper concerns saul kripke s argument against type physicalism and for property dualism. An evaluation of saul kripkes argument for property dualism by thomas hunter chambers, b. Please visit the saul kripke centers new website here. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing. This would remain aposteriori necessary if saul kripke were replaced by, say, a rigid description of kripke. This volume is a publication of the lectures in book form for the fi rst time. Obvious printing errors have been corrected, and slight changes. The discussion here brings to bear many of the results from earlier in the book, including rigid designation, the necessity of identity, the possibility of necessary a posteriori truths, and. He has been immensely influential in a number of fields related to logic and philosophy of language.
We will study classic works by gottlob frege, bertrand russell, saul kripke, and others. Established in 2007 at the cuny graduate center, the saul kripke center houses the archives of professor saul a. Kripke distinguished professor in the programs of philosophy and computer science saul kripke center cuny graduate center 365 fifth avenue new york, ny 100164309 office. Published december 10th by polity press, pages, paperback. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in. Naming and necessity 193 we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. The present commentary attempts to improve understanding of it by. Much of his best known work deal with the logic and language. 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. Keep in mind that choose paper size by pdf page size is a hit or miss sort of situation. This entry is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike 4. My objection to the argument is that it relies upon a premise for which. If youre looking for a free download links of naming, necessity and more.
He defends a view of the reference of these terms akin to mills. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the graduate center of the city university of new york and emeritus professor at princeton university. Subsequent references are indicated parenthetically. All credits appearing on page or at the end of the book are considered to be an extension of the. On a derivation of the necessity of identity saul kripkes lecture identity and necessity 1971 begins with a short discussion of a formal derivation of a law of necessity of identity. But if one expression is a rigid designator, and another is not, the two cannot mean the same thing. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings. In reading naming and necessity, it is clear that saul kripke stands in a similar position. Saul kripke, identity and necessity driving question. According to diogenes laertius, philip of opus was a disciple of plato, who was responsible for transcribing platos laws into twelve books, and writing the thirteenth book the epinomis himself. Some say that philip the opuntian transcribed his platos work, laws, which was written in wax wooden tablets coated with wax. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from identity and necessity give a sketch of kripke s argumentation against the identity theory and discuss it.
The work he is best known for is naming and necessity 1980. The pirates missed the good food and clean rooms, so they went and brought small saul back aboard. Austin, elizabeth anscombe, willard quine, thomas nagel, and saul kripke. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as taperecordings. The conference in honor of kripke s sixtyfifth birthday with a video of his speech the first person, january 2526, 2006. Kripke on the distinctness of the mind from the body.
I think this is the biggest reason most people subscribe to the faith that they dotheyre born into it. Its essays, written by distinguished philosophers in the field, present a broader picture of kripke s life and work than has previously been available to scholars of his thought. Kripkes interpretation, and his arguments, deserve. Saul kripke begins the second lecture by reiterating the various theses of the fregerussell perspective and related cluster concept of naming. Since the 1960s kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. He was a lot nicer, neater, and cleaner than most pirates, so he got tossed overboard. Saul aaron kripke is an american philosopher and logician, now emeritus from princeton. Naming and necessity lecture 2 summary course hero. This collection of essays on saul kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by kripke. 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.
Saul kripke, in full saul aaron kripke, born november, 1940, bay shore, long island, new york, u. For example, kripkes to my knowledge has never seriously investigated the catholic, orthodox, islam. He is a distinguished professor of john burgess, saul kripke. Philosophical books saul kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of wittgensteins philosophical investigations and produced an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argumentset out with all the clarity, incisiveness and economy that one expects of its. Further, as far as revision is concerned, there is something to be said fo r preserving a work in its original form, warts and all. Saul kripke born november, 1940 is an american philosopher and logician. His work, esoteric as it may seem to a public acquainted with such social philosophers as john dewey or jeanpaul sartre, has created new fields in mathematical set theory and modal logic. Saul aaron kripke is an american philosopher and logician. Causal theory of reference 9 usc dana and david dornsife.
November is the 317th day of the year 318th in leap years in the gregorian calendar. Texas state universitysan marcos august 20 supervising professor. Here the latter must be given primary emphasis, but the former will not be entirely neglected. Kripke distinguished two versions of descriptivism one purporting to give the meaning and referent of a proper name for a speaker and one purporting only to do the latter. Semantics article about semantics by the free dictionary. These two examples presented by gettier, however, were by no means flawless. In certain possible world, nixon might not be the president of us, in others nixon could be the. 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. Outline of a theory of truth saul kripke the journal of philosophy, vol. Kripke cambridge, mass harvard university press, 1972, 1980 by saul a. Reprmred by permtsston of the pubbshers from naming and necessity by saul a.
Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. It is a point, made by donnellan,l that under certain circumstances a particular speaker may use a definite description to refer, not to the. The pragmatists like dewey though they came before russel, if i am not mistaken. Among the things it can depend on are how accurately are the pdf page sizes defined they have to exactly match the tray definitions, the rotation of the page again, they may need to match, and if the printer support such a workflow as mixed media tray pulls. He teaches as distinguished professor of philosophy at cuny graduate center. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.
Kripke a puzzle about belief in this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief. Kripke wittgenstein onrules and private language anelementary exposition harvard universitypress cambridge, massachusetts. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from identity and necessity give a sketch of kripkes argumentation against the identity theory and discuss it. Cambridge, mass harvard university press, 1972, 1980 by saul a. The saul kripke center, at the cuny graduate center saul kripke, genius logician a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Josh roberts paper i kripke in his seminal work, on denoting, bertrand russell examines the meaning of proper names and expounds on what is known as the descriptivist theory of names. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense.
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. Naming and necessity by saul kripke is a work on the subject of analytical philosophy, focused on the topic of philosophy of language. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. Edmund gettier presented two counterexamples to the widely accepted theory, sparking a revolution of thought for epistemologists. One is the problem of empty names, typical examples of which are. Saul kripke has thought uncommonly hard about the central argument of wittgensteins philosophical investigations and produces an uncommonly clear and vivid account of that argument.
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