172 Pp. Hard Cover. First Printing Of This 1980 Edition, Corrected Throughout And Slightly Revised, With A New Preface By Kripke. Near Fine, A Few Lines On Three Pages Each Lightly Underlined In Ink; No Names, No Other Marks. The Fragile Unlaminated Jacket Is Near Fine, Three 1/6" To 1/8" Tears At Edges, Clean, Very Slight Browning To Spine Panel. A Philosophical Concern For The Logical Use Of Language, But Not Addressing The Larger Issue Of Naming Itself As Always Being A Political Act, Selective And Prejudiced And Intensional, A Personal Activity Of Indefinably Immense Preconditions, Characteristics And Consequences, Ultimately Unrelated To And Oblivious To The Logical Implications.

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Titel

Naming and Necessity

Verlag

Harvard University Press

Ver�ffentlichungsdatum

1980

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0674598458

ISBN-13

9780674598454

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

2nd Edition

Zustand

Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Near Fine

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If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. 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. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

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An impressive and enduring work of philosophy, outstanding in its sweep, clarity, and penetration. Kripke's lectures constitute something of a landmark in the recent development of philosophy... Kripke's penetrating good sense... and his brilliance in the devising of suggestive examples to test a theory's plausibility, have ensured that the topics he deals with can never took quite the same again. When these lectures were first published eight years ago, they stood analytic philosophy on its ear. Everybody was either furious, or exhilarated, or thoroughly perplexed. No one was indifferent. This welcome republication in a separate volume (with a helpful new preface, but no substantive changes) provides a chance to look back at a modern classic, and to say something about why it was found so shocking and liberating. "Naming and Necessity" lays out a way of thinking about the relation between language and the world which permits just as formal and rigorous a treatment of notions like "meaning," "truth" and "reference" as had Russell's and Frege's. Nobody would have believed that the neatness--what Kripke calls "the marvellous internal coherence"--of Frege-Russell semantics could be duplicated after everything was turned upside down. But Kripke showed how to do it, and now philosophers are busily rewriting all of semantics (and a good deal of epistemology) in Kripkean terms.

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