Naming and necessity pdf

Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. The book has four chapters, covering the main topics of kripkes epic naming and necessity nn. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Naming and necessity 195 h t the thing which we saw in the evening is the thing which we saw in. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it. Lets say that an essential property of an object o is a property such that o could not have existed without having that property. Kripkes most important philosophical publication, naming and necessity 1980, based on transcripts of three lectures he delivered at princeton in 1970, changed the course of analytic philosophy. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. So the classical picture seems to successfully dissolve this puzzle about reference.

I will ar gue that we should put the nec essity back into naming. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and o. One of the properties, or some conjointly, are believed by a to pick out. A rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds in which that object exists and never designates anything else. The routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity is an ideal starting point for anyone coming kripkes work for the first time. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence.

Osamu kiritani 20 croatian journal of philosophy 1. The modal argument 4849, 7177 in lecture i, kripke introduced the notion of rigid designation. This technical concept in the philosophy of language has critical consequences felt throughout philosophy. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and necessity in analytic philosophy today, our views on these topics really have wderanging. Oxford university press contains extensive discussion of kripkes arguments in the philosophy of language, but provides little by way of a discussion of kripkes work in other areas. Even were that true, the name would not be synonymous with the descnption, but would be used to name an object which we pick out by the contingent fact that it satisfies a certain description. Much of the argument depends on conclusions drawn earlier in his work.

The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of. Jun, 2019 in this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and necessity. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface. Naming and necessity pdf in particular, both thought that there was no fundamental difference between ordinary proper names and definite descriptions. In his famous work naming and necessity, saul kripke presents an argument against the materialists identity theory of mind. This, then, the real menig of the idntity statement in uestion. Synthese library monographs on epistemology, logic, methodology, philosophy of science, sociology of science and of knowledge, and on the mathematical methods of social and behavioral sciences, vol 40. Consider a sentence of the form, if the f exists, then the f.

The epistemic argument 8687 there is another powerful argument against the description theory, on which kripke touches only brie. Pdf naming and epistemic necessity dilip ninan academia. I hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Kripke gives a brief overview of the timeframe in which the ideas of naming and necessity were developed and what principles motivated his work. Kripke has this to say about quines argument naming and necessity. Read download naming and necessity pdf pdf download. Naming and necessity by saul kripke is a work on the subject of analytical philosophy, focused on the topic of philosophy of language.

From 1963 to 1964 kripke developed the ideas of naming and necessity in response to discussion concerning gottfreid leibnizs principle of the indiscernability of identicals. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning. Pdf on sep 15, zsofia zvolenszky and others published naming with necessity. And so, even though we can imagine a case where the man who wrote these works. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. To every name or designating expression x, there corresponds a cluster of properties, namely the family of those properties.

Saul kripkes naming and necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of. Much of the argument depends on conclusions drawn earlier in. Project muse naming, necessity and natural kinds ed. The traditional theory of references holds that meaning is given to terms by specifying a conjunction of properties. In their fullest generality, the consequences are metaphysical and epistemological. According to the classical view, we associate descriptions with names, and the references of names are. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings.

It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under. This means it makes the assumption that many fundamental. Also, that any symbol in a natural or hypothetical language that is not a rigid designator ought not to be called a name. And we can always turn a nonrigid description the f into a rigid description by using the. Let us call any ohject that has just the physical properties le. Saul kripke, for example, says in naming and necessity that not only did russell have a theory plainly incompatible with our direct intuitions of rigidity, i but the one reason for this was that russell did not consider modal questions.

Naming and necessity pdf, in particular, both thought that there was no fundamental difference between ordinary proper names and definite descriptions. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new. Psychology, philosophy of mind publisher the university chicago press. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. Naming and necessity is an unusual thought experiment in relation to metaphysical reasoning and a priori thought of the things around us. In 19634, kripke concluded that it can be demonstrated that names in ordinary language are rigid designators, and therefore that identities are necessary. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories. It is essential reading for philosophy students studying. Free download naming and necessity pdf, if there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.

Naming and necessity from a functional point of view. The unfinished semantic agenda of naming and necessity 2002 new york. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. There we saw that we could give the following test for the rigidity of a term. Routledge philosophy guidebook to kripke and naming and. Kripke 1980 hypothesizes a link between rigidity and scope. It explores the connections between our deduction and reasoning processes as to why we name objects, qualities, and even people. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense.