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1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) |
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Key contemporary thinkers |
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Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Background""; ""Plan""; ""1: Naming""; ""Mill vs Frege""; ""Error and Ignorance""; ""Metalinguistic Theories""; ""The Historical Chain Picture""; ""Reference vs Attribution""; ""2: Identity""; ""Modal Logic and its Archenemy""; ""Rigidity""; ""The Necessity of Identity""; ""Resistance""; ""The Contingent a Priori""; ""3: Necessity""; ""Imagination and the Necessary a Posteriori""; ""Natural Substances""; ""Natural Kinds""; ""Natural Phenomena and Natural Law""; ""The Mystery of Modality""; ""4: Belief"" |
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""Direct Reference""""Puzzling Pierre""; ""Poles Apart""; ""Counterfactual Attitudes""; ""Empty Names""; ""5: Rules""; ""Conventionalism""; ""Kripkenstein""; ""The Analogy with Hume""; ""The Skeptical Paradox""; ""The Skeptical Solution""; ""6: Mind""; ""Physicalism""; ""Functionalism""; ""Against Functionalism""; ""Against Physicalism""; ""The Mystery of Mentality""; ""Appendix A: Models""; ""The Logic of Modality""; ""Kripke Models""; ""The Curse of the Barcan Formulas""; ""Controversy and Confusion""; ""Appendix B: Truth""; ""Paradox and Pathology""; ""Kripke vs Tarski""; ""Fixed Points"" |
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""The Intuitive Notion of Truth""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several major essays have now appeared in print, most recently in his long-awaited collection Philosophical Troubles.In this book Kripke's long-time colleague, the logician and philosopher John P. Burgess, offers a thorough and self-contained guide to all of Kripke's published |
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-210) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kripke, Saul A., 1940-2022
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| SUBJECT |
Kripke, Saul A., 1940-2022 fast |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy
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philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780745676333 |
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0745676332 |
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074566394X |
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9780745663944 |
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1299468918 |
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9781299468917 |
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