Nome e necessità

As you can see if you read the other reviews, there are a lot of ways to approach Naming and Necessity , and some of them get into very technical philosophical territory. Those ways of reading it are interesting, but I think that what Kripke is saying is, in the end, quite simple, which is why the bo Leggi tutto

To listen to this review as a podcast, click below: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... _________________________ It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It’s wrong. You may suspect me of proposing another theory in its place; Leggi tutto

Like virtually all analytic philosophy, Kripke's work is basically outsider art ('outsider philosophy') -- that is, naively working with concepts and language without understanding the history of any of the terms involved, treating Plato's dialogues as a journal article written yesterday, and philos Leggi tutto

I remember in graduate school, when Kripke visited as a young genius, I didn’t know quite what to make of him. I remember A. J. Ayer, the logical positivist and a bastion of British philosophy, expostulating from the podium, “So there, Kripke!” in the middle of a presentation, as though Kripke were Leggi tutto

An extremely important book for the philosophy of language, and also very relevant in philosophy of mind. The book consists of 3 transcribed+edited lectures which Kripke apparently gave extemporaneously. This lecture format means that the book is rather quick and easy to read, and almost entirely fr Leggi tutto

For a "revolutionary" or "landmark" book, it contains surprisingly nothing of substance. I suppose it's interesting for people who already accept notions like necessity and the a priori, and for those who think that the notion of "meaning" is clear enough to lean on for any substantive philosophical Leggi tutto

Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity addresses how words come to point to the things in the world that they refer to. Kripke successfully paints a more accurate picture of how this happens than the accepted view. Further, Kripke shows how we can have empirical knowledge of necessities by showing that Leggi tutto

How do words (in language) refer to things (objects) in the world? What is the meaning? Is the molecular formula of water essential or possible? What is identity in objects (or individuals)? How do we refer to things that are not (non-existent)? For example: Unicorn or Sherlock Holmes. Kripke's discussio Leggi tutto

Kripke is both clear and enjoyable to read, some of it was even pretty funny. I learnt about the causal theory of reference and found his modal argument against type-physicalism to be interesting too, I'll need to look into it more.