Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity

Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0191544000
ISBN-13 : 9780191544002
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Book Synopsis Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity by : Christopher Hughes

Download or read book Kripke : Names, Necessity, and Identity written by Christopher Hughes and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity. He clears up some common misunderstandings of Kripke's views on rigid designation, causality and reference, the necessary and the contingent, the a posteriori and the a priori. Through his engagement with Kripke's ideas Hughes makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates on, inter alia, the semantics of natural kind terms, the nature of natural kinds, the essentiality of origin and constitution, the relative merits of 'identitarian' and counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality, and the identity or otherwise of mental types and tokens with physical types and tokens. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.


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