Naming, Necessity and More [electronic resource] : Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke /
Berg, Jonathan.author.
Berg, Jonathan,1954-editor.
Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Part I: Naming; 1 Why Rigidity?; 2 Tradition and Language; Part II: Necessity; 3 Over-Assignment of Structure; 4 Modal Paradox; 5 Personal Identity: What's the Problem?; Part III: Meaning; 6 A Fregean Look at Kripke's Modal Notion of Meaning; 7 Semantics in the Twilight Zone; Part IV: Skepticism; 8 Kripke's Infinity Argument; 9 Kripke's Paradox of Meaning; 10 Skeptical Arguments in Hume and Wittgenstein; Part V: Logic; 11 The Road to Gödel; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.
Kripke, Saul A., 1940-
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
Logic.
Language and languages-Philosophy.
Linguistics.
Logic.
Philosophy of Language.
Linguistics, general.