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Saul Kripke
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G.W. Fitch
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9780773581821, 9780773528857, 9780773528840
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McGill-Queen\'s University Press
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Saul Kripke’s work has had a tremendous impact on philosophy in the last thirty years and continues to dominate key debates in the field. In the first introduction to his philosophy written expressly for general students, G.W. Fitch provides a thorough exposition of Kripke’s ideas. Beginning with a discussion of the early work on modal logic, the foundation for many of his later philosophical contributions, Fitch also examines the central ideas and arguments in Naming and Necessity, including Kripke’s account of ordinary proper names, theories of reference, the conception of necessity, and the nature of identity. He goes on to discuss Kripke’s views on theoretical identifications, the puzzle of belief, and his argument against materialism as well as outlining his work on semantic paradoxes, his theory of truth, and his controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein’s famous private language argument. Kripke’s ideas are situated alongside those of his precursors and some of the most important and interesting responses to them are explored. Fitch clarifies Kripke’s ground-breaking contributions to philosophy and shows how they have challenged traditional interpretations.

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Saul Kripke
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Berger, Alan
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9781139153263, 9780521858267
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Cambridge University Press
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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of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke. 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. New topics covered in these essays include vacuous names and names in fiction, Kripke on logicism and de re attitude toward numbers, Kripke on the incoherency of adopting a logic, Kripke on colour words and his criticism of the primary versus secondary quality distinction, and Kripke’s critique of functionalism. These essays not only present Kripke’s basic arguments but also engage with the arguments and controversies engendered by his work, providing the most comprehensive analysis of his philosophy and writings available. This collection will become a classic in contemporary analytic philosophy.

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