View notes kripke lecture 3 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. On the other hand it does seem to support surprising conclusions about the modal status of identity statements. Find a summary of this and each chapter of naming and necessity. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. Video blog discussion post for andrew cullisons philosophy class language and modality. Naming and necessity by saul kripke was first published in book form in 1980 and consists mainly of three lectures given at princeton university, an overview, an essay on the problem of names, and. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. Considerable time has elapsed, and i have come to realize that any extensive revision orex. Naming and necessity lecture 3 summary course hero. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Consider a sentence of the form, if the f exists, then the f. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity.
Preface originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively. Kripke lecture 3 if w is a world where aristotle never went into philosophy, d is true, e is false and f is true. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. The epistemic argument 8687 there is another powerful argument against the description theory, on which kripke touches only brie. Im experimenting with video blogging for one of the philosophy courses i. The preface of 21 pages describes the genesis and background of the leading ideas of the monograph, and discusses a few common misunderstandings.