1st Edition
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity
By Harold Noonan
Copyright 2013
256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity , makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking fundamental questions – how do names refer to things in the world? Do objects have essential properties? What are natural kind terms and to what do they... Read more
1.Introductory Overview 2. The Background 3. Naming 4. Necessity 5. Extensions. Index
Biography
Harold Noonan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Hume on Knowledge (1998), and Personal Identity (second edition 2003), both available from Routledge.
