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Naming, Necessity and More

Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Berg

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel

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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.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Naming

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Rigidity?

      • Hanoch Ben-Yami
      Pages 3-21

    3. Tradition and Language

      • Meir Buzaglo
      Pages 22-36

  3. Necessity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Over-Assignment of Structure

      • Eli Dresner
      Pages 39-53

    3. Modal Paradox

      • Teresa Robertson
      Pages 54-80

    4. Personal Identity: What’s the Problem?

      • Nathan Salmon
      Pages 81-125

  4. Meaning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. A Fregean Look at Kripke’s Modal Notion of Meaning

      • Gilead Bar-Elli
      Pages 129-147

    3. Semantics in the Twilight Zone

      • Jonathan Berg
      Pages 148-165

  5. Skepticism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Kripke’s Infinity Argument

      • Oron Shagrir
      Pages 169-190

    3. Kripke’s Paradox of Meaning

      • Paul Horwich
      Pages 191-201

    4. Skeptical Arguments in Hume and Wittgenstein

      • Mark Steiner
      Pages 202-220

  6. Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. The Road to Gödel

      • Saul A. Kripke
      Pages 223-241

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 243-245
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel

    Jonathan Berg

About the editor

Gilead Bar-Elli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Hanoch Ben-Yami, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary Meir Buzaglo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Eli Dresner, Tel Aviv University, Israel Paul Horwich, New York University, USA Saul Aaron Kripke, CUNY Graduate Center Teresa Robertson, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nathan Salmon, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Oron Shagrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Mark Steiner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Naming, Necessity and More

  • Book Subtitle: Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke

  • Editors: Jonathan Berg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400932

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40092-5Published: 03 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48624-3Published: 01 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40093-2Published: 03 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 245

  • Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, general

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