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Title: Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke ISBN: 0-674-59846-6 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb!
Comment: The proper analysis of language is more important for philosophy than practically any other project (an exception is the proper understanding of logic, and perhaps the right ontology). This is true even if your primary philosophical interest is "spirituality" and the "World Soul", whatever that is. The importance of language is recognized even by Continental philosophers, given their concern with semiotics, structuralism, etc. Analytic philosophers, needless to say, have always understood it, and none more so than Kripke. Kripke does an incredible job of clearing up a mass of confusions that have surrounded the notion of necessity ever since the days of Hume and Kant. In terms of its philosophical importance, this book is comparable to "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" or "Philosophical Investigations"; it ought to be read by every analytic philosopher. END
Rating: 4
Summary: A classic
Comment: "Naming and necessity" is a collection of three lectures held at Princeton by Saul Kripke in 1970. So much has been written about this book that hardly any comment can be added. Yet, I still feel the "necessity" of writing my own view. The first lecture catches the reader a little unprepaired, jumping directly to the core of the argument, which develops in the second lecture and is expanded in the third. The third lecture is probably the best, with the discussion about natural kinds being my personal favorite. All the important names of analytic philosophy somewhat converge on this book, it is a classic, a revolutionary and inspiring book. It is also very direct: the reader will be put face to face with old philosophical problems in naming, identity, necessity and a priori knowledge and their most ingenious and clear analysis. This book is analytic philosophy at its best, buy it.
Rating: 4
Summary: To Be Read By All Possible Readers
Comment: CUNY's Saul Kripke is the premier logical mind of our time, and this book (rightly acclaimed as a classic of analytic philosophy) is a friendly introduction to considering the topic he made *intellectually* tractable: the role of modalities in thought. In three 1970 lectures (originally published in the Synthese volume *Semantics of Natural Language*) Kripke ran through the contribution of "counterfactual" reasoning involving tacit use of modal logic to several philosophical debates. Although his conclusions are none too tentative, if you can stand to countenance the thought of Holy Roman United Nations after reading this book you could also come to appreciate the moral of its reception (aptly put by Oxford's Michael Dummett in an article entitled "Could There Be Unicorns?", but rumored of by Montagovians some time previously).
Kripkean semantics for modal logic created an extremely flexible, pluralistic framework for assessing the role of modalities in reasoning, but is often taken in the form in which it is presented (here) to constitute a return to Aristotelian scholasticism. And although much work inspired by "Naming and Necessity" does allow such a construal perhaps "metaphysical" reasoning fits other conformances as well, and thoughts had by greats going back as far as you like live a life in the present somewhat other than one might think -- and if the reader will go this far with Kripke, today there are ample tools available for going *much* further. A supremely important book, which has in my opinion not been "outlived" by its extremely warm initial reception.
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Title: Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine ISBN: 0262670011 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1964 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Saul Kripke ISBN: 0674954017 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays by Willard V. Quine ISBN: 0674323513 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Elizabeth Anscombe ISBN: 0631231277 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Ontological Relativity by Willard Quine ISBN: 0231083572 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1977 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
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