Saul Kripke /

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of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke.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 previ...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Berger, Alan, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Alan Berger
  • Part I. Naming, necessity, identity, and a priority: 1. Kripke on proper and general names / Bernard Linsky
  • 2. Kripke on vacuous names and names in fiction / Nathan Salmon
  • 3. Kripke on epistemic and modal possibility: two routes to the necessary a posteriori / Scott Soames
  • 4. Possible world semantics and its philosophic foundations / Robert Stalnaker
  • Part II. Formal semantics, truth, philosophy of math, and philosophy of logic
  • 5. Kripke models for modal logic and intuitionism / John Burgess
  • 6. Kripke's theory of truth / John Burgess
  • 7. Kripke on logicism, Wittgenstein, and de re beliefs about numbers / Mark Steiner
  • 8. Kripke on the incoherency of adopting a logic / Alan Berger
  • Part III. Language and mind
  • 9. Kripke's new puzzle about belief and our principles of belief attribution / Mark Richard
  • 10. A note on Kripke's puzzle about belief / Nathan Salmon
  • 11. Kripke's version of Wittgenstein: some conceptions and misconceptions / George Wilson
  • 12. Kripke on color words and the primary, secondary quality distinction / Mario Gomez-Torrente
  • Part IV. Philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology
  • 13. Kripke's views on carteisianism and naturalism / Sydney Shoemaker
  • 14. Kripke's critique of functionalism / Jeff Buechner.