All additional course materials are available online via the course blackboard site. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of. Naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. A statement is epistemically possible iff there is a world in which, as far as our experiences go. View notes kripke lecture 1 from phil 8310 at utah valley university. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. Naming, necessity, and apriority part i consists of the first four chapters. If w is a world where aristotle never went into philosophy, d is true, e is false and f is true. 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. Once we know 3 and 4, we are in a position to deduce c, which says of our necessary a posteriori proposition 3 that it is necessary. Naming and necessity, lecture ii kripkes critique of the. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. A statement is epistemically possible iff there is a world in which, as far as our experiences go, words seem to be used the same way, but in which an utterance of the.
It confronts important issues left open in that work. The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Before kripke gave his naming and necessity lectures, a number of criticisms of this descriptivist theory had been published by leading philosophers, including ludwig wittgenstein, john searle and peter strawson. Naming and necessity semantic scholar but they should be. 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. Hanoch benyami department of philosophy, ceu budapest in naming and necessity kripke argued against the possible existence of. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language. It is a point, made by donnellan,3 that under certain circumstances a particular. And i really liked it, at least the first two lectures as well as parts of the addenda and the intro. In the name of picasso function of the turns and twists of the masters private life. With the exception of kripkes book, readings will either be posted to blackboard or handed.
One required book is saul kripkes naming and necessity. Intuitive test for rigid designation n is a rigid designator i. Each week every student should do the assigned reading and write a short 23 double. In this lecture i give an overview of the problem of intentionality from brentano. Saul kripke s naming and necessity consists of revised transcriptions of three lectures given at princeton university in 1970. You already have a bunch from the days when you called jon posteland asked for them e. Optimization of the manufacturing process dfa is a tool used to select the most cost effective material and process to be used in the production in the early stages of product. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. If we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. In doing so, he develops a framework that he applies to the.
Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. I will be teaching another section of the same course with the same three books but probably different supplementary articles and diverging lecture content. Thus the phenomenon of rigidity casts no real doubt on the description theory of names.
Identifying the two, he supposes that both are given by. Naming and necessity is a book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher saul kripke, at princeton university in, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy. As there are no textbook for this course, most readings will be made available on oak as pdf files. You are expected to print these out and bring them to class. In lecture i, kripke introduced the notion of rigid designation. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Saul kripke began the first of his lectures on naming and necessity. A term t is a rigid designator just in case in every possible world it designates the same object quoting from kripke, naming and necessity. Saul kripkes classic set of lectures naming and necessity. Necessity reveals the informal style of these lectures. A posteriori necessities and the illusion of contingency kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity sentences as examples of the necessary a posteriori. However, kripke believed that the existing arguments against the fregerussell descriptive theory of names failed to identify the real problems with the theory. So someone who is competent with a name will know a priori that the bearer.
Kripke attributes variants of descriptivist theories to frege, russell, ludwig wittgenstein and john searle, among others. Operating systems mike dahlin 10 with icon or text, need to map nameaindex 3. Home syllabus assignments files student course feedback instructor access to. Synthese library monographs on epistemology, logic, methodology, philosophy of science, sociology of science and of knowledge, and on the mathematical methods of social and behavioral sciences, vol 40. Considerable time has elapsed, and i have come to realize that any extensive revision orex. Find a summary of this and each chapter of naming and necessity. Saul kripke, naming and necessity, lecture i brown university.
For he takes the sense of a designator to be its meaning. Rigid designation kripkes view about essential properties has implications for his views about language. Im experimenting with video blogging for one of the philosophy courses i teach. Here you can download file kripke, saul naming and necessity. The first lecture provides a brief historical survey of the descriptivist theory, particularly the version associated with philosophers gottlob frege, bertrand russell, john searle. Some famous puzzles, arguments, and thought experiments.
Other times its that 2 because of the names, the example does not work. While we do not yet have a description of the lecture file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. I end by introducing the idea that has come to be known as mysterianism. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. To every name or designating expression x, there corresponds a cluster of properties, namely the family of those properties. On the other hand it does seem to support surprising conclusions about the modal status of identity statements.
Join our community just now to flow with the file kripke, saul naming and necessity and make our shared file collection even more complete and exciting. Every day thousands of users submit information to us about which programs they use to open specific types of files. W dec 2 kripke, naming and necessity, lecture ii pp. Kripkes naming and necessity lecture three 10ptagainst. Processes 2 processes this lecture starts a class segment that covers processes, threads, and synchronization these topics are perhaps the most important in this class. With the exception of his cubism, picassos style is inextricable from his biography.
In the lectures kripke is responding to previous attempts to solve certain problems in the philosophy of language. Kripkeharvard university press cambridge, massachusetts copyrightc 1972, 1980 by sau. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. Chapter summary for saul kripkes naming and necessity, lecture 3 summary. Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your universitys proxy server configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Reference and existence, saul kripkes john locke lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic naming and necessity. According to descriptivist theories, proper names either are synonymous with descriptions, or. An optional book is william lycans philosophy of language. However, since kripke set that topic aside in naming and necessity, and perhaps because there has not yet been enough time for critical responses, noonan sets the topic aside as well. Troubles, which appears is in the authors bibliography, does offer a paper vacuous names and fictional entities on same topic, one highly relevant to the topic of naming. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364.
This is a description, and descriptons are not rigid by nature. Saul kripke project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. 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 third lecture is sadly poorly written and argued someone else already commented on it in this stream below, i agree with that reader. Naming and necessity a conflation in freges notion of sense frege should be criticized for using the term sense in two senses. With the museum of modern arts huge picasso retrospective has come a flood of critical and scholarly essays on picasso, almost all of them dedicated to. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming. So the courses are not interchangeable in the long run. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks.
Lecture notes, essay assignments, announcements, and other information will also be made available on this site. Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language linguistics. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. Saul kripkes naming and necessity consists of revised transcriptions of three lectures given at princeton university in 1970. In january of 1970 saul kripke delivered a series of lectures at princeton university that were transcribed into a book, naming and necessity, published in 1972. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The three lectures that form naming and necessity constitute an attack on descriptivist theory of names. The asteroid was first observed in 1993, when i was twentyone years old and had yet to accomplish anything that would merit so much as an eponymous clod of dirt. Dfm is the method of design for ease of manufacturing of the collection of parts that will form the product after assembly. Naming and necessity lecture 3 summary course hero. I look in some detail at kripke zs argument in naming and necessity. It is well known that modern logicians also are very interested in definite descriptions. Feb 11, 2009 video blog discussion post for andrew cullisons philosophy class language and modality. Preface originally i had intended to revise or augment naming and necessity extensively.