Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1
"Readers fond of the Greatest Hits will devour this book. You will not be disappointed in expecting savory new servings of philosophical substance sweetened by a familiar charm and wit."--Mark Crimmins,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"The first volume of [Kripke's] collected papers, recently published by Oxford University Press under the arresting title "Philosophical Troubles" will be a treasure trove to his fellow philosophers of logic and language." -- Jim Holt,The New York Times' The Stone"The philosophical world has been waiting for a long time for this volume from one of its greatest thinkers. Several of these classic papers revolutionized a number of fields in philosophy, in some cases even without having been previously published. They are available here for the first time in authoritative versions prepared for publication, alongside other justly famous essays. Simply a 'must-have' of analytic philosophy."--Paul Boghossian, New York University"Everything Saul Kripke has written is first-rate. Most of it is brilliant. Some of it has been field-changing.Naming and Necessityhas a good chance of finding a place in the permanent canon of the history of philosophy. So anything else that Kripke publishes will very likely draw long-term interest.  Any serious student of philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, or epistemology should read and reread Kripke's work, including these papers."--Tyler Burge, University of California, Los Angeles"Saul Kripke's work has significantly changed the way we look at fundamental philosophical problems today.Naming and Necessityhelped to shatter a centuries-old consensus on the nature of the fundamental semantical concepts of connotation and reference, as well as challenging received ideas about necessity and contingency. This collection of articles is more than welcome; it is something every philosopher will want to own."--Hilary Putnam, Harvard University"A great deal of this work is new-that is, not the classic canonical Saul Kripke everyone already knows about. True, some of it had been circulating in samizdat form. But more often it was just the ideas that were circulating, and whether for broken telephone reasons, or because the ideas have been evolving, they are oftentimes different (and more challenging) than previously reported. Throughout one finds the trademark Kripkean combination of shining insights with an open-mindedness about what is ultimately to be made of them."--Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"I have learned more from Saul Kripke than from any other philosopher of our time."--David Kaplan, University of California, Los Angeles"A new collection of articles by Saul Kripke is a major event. The older papers are classics, and the newer papers are fascinating. There is an enormous amount of substantial, creative, and insightful philosophy throughout."--David Chalmers, Australian National University and New York University