Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity Noonan Harold W.
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity Noonan Harold W. Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Asking fundamental questions - how…
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity Noonan Harold W.
Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Asking fundamental questions - how do names refer to things in the world? His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years.
What are natural kind terms and to what do they refer? Do objects have essential properties? - he challenges prevailing theories of language and conceptions of metaphysics, especially the descriptivist account of reference, which Kripke argues is found in Frege, Wittgenstein and Russell, and the anti-essentialist metaphysics of Quine.In this invaluable guidebook to Kripke's classic work, Harold Noonan introduces and assesses: - Kripke's life and the background to his philosophy the ideas and text of Naming