Naming and Necessity
Philosophy book by Saul Kripke / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Naming and Necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher Saul Kripke, at Princeton University in 1970, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy of language.[1] The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in Semantics of Natural Language, edited by Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman.[2] Among analytic philosophers, Naming and Necessity is widely considered one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century.[3]
Author | Saul A. Kripke |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subjects | Metaphysics, Philosophy of language |
Publisher | Harvard University Press, Blackwell |
Publication date | 1980 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
Pages | 184 |
ISBN | 978-0-674-59845-4 |
OCLC | 5726909 |
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LC Class | BD417 .K74 |
The title is a reference to Rudolf Carnap's book Meaning and Necessity,[4] which, like Naming and Necessity, is also about semantics and modal logic.