The New Theory of Reference - Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University. They produced something of a sensation. In the lectures he argued, amongst other things, that many names in ordinary language referred to objects directly rather than by means of associated descriptions; that causal chains from language user to language user were an important mechanism for preserving reference; that there were necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori truths; that identity relations between rigid designators were necessary; and argued, more tentatively, that materialist identity theories in the philosophy of mind were suspect. Interspersed with this was a consider able amount of material on natural kind terms and essentialism. As a result of these lectures and a related 1971 paper, 'Identity and Necessity' (Kripke [1971]), talk of rigid designators, Hesperus and Phosphorus, meter bars, gold and H 0, and suchlike quickly became commonplace in philosophical circles 2 and when the lectures were published under the title Naming and Necessity in the collection The Semantics of Natural Language (Davidson and Harman l [1972]), that volume became the biggest seller in the Reidel (later Kluwer) list. The cluster of theses surrounding the idea that a relation of direct reference 2 exists between names and their referents is now frequently referred to as 'The 3 New Theory of Reference'.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Synthese Library, 270
Release date:	May 1998
First published:	1998
Editors:	P. Humphreys • J. H. Fetzer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4898-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
LSN:	0-7923-4898-2
Barcode:	9780792348986

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