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The New Theory of Reference - Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The New Theory of Reference - Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 270
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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'.
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