Burgess Kripke

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6394-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Key Contemporary Thinkers

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy andallied fields for a half-century and more. His earlymasterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the patternof two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and thecontingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished, severalmajor essays have now appeared in print, most recently in hislong-awaited collection Philosophical Troubles.
In this book Kripke's long-time colleague, the logician andphilosopher John P. Burgess, offers a thorough and self-containedguide to all of Kripke's published books and his mostimportant philosophical papers, old and new. It also provides anauthoritative but non-technical account of Kripke'sinfluential contributions to the study of modal logic and logicalparadoxes. Although Kripke has been anything but a system-builder,Burgess expertly uncovers the connections between different partsof his oeuvre. Kripke is shown grappling, often in opposition toexisting traditions, with mysteries surrounding the nature ofnecessity, rule-following, and the conscious mind, as well as withintricate and intriguing puzzles about identity, belief andself-reference. Clearly contextualizing the full range ofKripke's work, Burgess outlines, summarizes and surveys theissues raised by each of the philosopher's majorpublications.
Kripke will be essential reading for anyone interestedin the work of one of analytic philosophy's greatest livingthinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burgess, John P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface page vii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Background 2
Plan 7
1 Naming 11
Mill vs Frege 11
Error and Ignorance 19
Metalinguistic Theories 24
The Historical Chain Picture 28
Reference vs Attribution 33
2 Identity 37
Modal Logic and its Archenemy 37
Rigidity 45
The Necessity of Identity 50
Resistance 53
The Contingent a Priori 56
3 Necessity 59
Imagination and the Necessary a Posteriori 59
Natural Substances 64
Natural Kinds 69
Natural Phenomena and Natural Law 71
The Mystery of Modality 74
4 Belief 78
Direct Reference 78
Puzzling Pierre 83
Poles Apart 88
Counterfactual Attitudes 91
Empty Names 98
5 Rules 104
Conventionalism 105
Kripkenstein 108
The Analogy with Hume 110
The Skeptical Paradox 116
The Skeptical Solution 120
6 Mind 128
Physicalism 128
Functionalism 131
Against Functionalism 134
Against Physicalism 136
The Mystery of Mentality 140
Appendix A Models 143
The Logic of Modality 143
Kripke Models 147
The Curse of the Barcan Formulas 150
Controversy and Confusion 153
Appendix B Truth 157
Paradox and Pathology 158
Kripke vs Tarski 159
Fixed Points 165
The Intuitive Notion of Truth 170
Notes 175
Bibliography 204
Index 211