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Saul Kripke (Paperback)
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Saul Kripke (Paperback)
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Saul Kripke is one of the most original and creative philosophers
writing today. His work has had a tremendous impact on the
direction that philosophy has taken in the last thirty years and
continues to dominate some of its most fundamental aspects. Given
Kripke's importance it is perhaps surprising that there is no
introduction to his philosophy available to the general student.
This book fills that gap. As much of Kripke's work is highly
technical, the book's central aim is to provide clear exposition of
Kripke's ideas in a form that is understandable to a beginning
readership as well as a commentary on them that more advanced
students will find useful. The book begins with a discussion of
Kripke's early work on modal logic, which provides the foundation
for many of his later philosophical contributions, before examining
in detail Kripke's central ideas and arguments contained in Naming
and Necessity. In further chapters, Kripke's work on semantic
paradoxes and his theory of truth are outlined as well as his
controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein's famous private
language argument. Kripke's ideas are situated alongside those of
his precursors and some of the most important and interesting
responses to them are explored. The reader is thus able to
appreciate the path-breaking nature of Kripke's contributions, how
they have challenged fundamentally traditional interpretations, and
how they have sparked some of the most important philosophical
debates of recent years.
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