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Autore |
Noonan Harold W. |
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Titolo |
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Kripke and Naming and necessity / / Harold Noonan |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-10515-4 |
0-203-07380-0 |
1-135-10516-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Necessity (Philosophy) |
Reference (Philosophy) |
Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introductory overview; The problem situation; Kripke's philosophical development; The main contentions; 2 The background; Frege on sense; Russell on descriptions and names; The Frege-Russell synthesizers; Quine; 3 Naming; The target; Giving the meaning, fixing the reference and rigid designation; The modal argument; The debate over the modal argument; The arguments against the cluster theory qua theory of reference-fixing; The historical chain picture; 4 Necessity; The intelligibility of essentialism |
The rejection of the problem of transworld identity and the critique of counterpart theoryThe essential properties of individuals; The necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; 5 Extensions; Natural kind terms as proper names of kinds; The necessity of theoretical identifications; The illusion of contingency and mind-brain identity; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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