The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Naming and necessity 193 we want a common term to cover names and descriptions, we may use the term designator. Identity and necessity, in identity and individuation, milton k. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. Time and development in kripkes naming and necessity. In both cases, ithas usually been taken for granted in fife one case by kant that synthetic a priori judgements were possible, and in the other case in contemporary,d. Now here, of course, we do not deny the necessity of the identity of an object with itself. Christopher hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of kripkes central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence. Kripke takes it for granted that both pain and cfiber stimulation are rigid.
Saul kripke, american logician and philosopher who was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic anglophone philosophy. In this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. Kripke on epistemic usc dana and david dornsife college. Kripke if there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. This, then, the real menig of the idntity statement in uestion. On a derivation of the necessity of identity saul kripkes lecture identity and necessity 1971 begins with a short discussion of a formal derivation of a law of necessity of identity. Saul kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th. He is best known for reintroducing modal concepts, such as necessity and possibility, with his landmark works naming and necessity and identity and necessity, as well as his popularizing gottfried leibnizs notion of possible worlds as a way of analyzing the concepts of a priori, analytic, and. Naming and necessity by saul kripke is a work on the subject of analytical philosophy, focused on the topic of philosophy of language. Kripke claims that i and ii are selfevident theses of philosophical logic independent of natural language.
We can then ask whether certain things might have been true of these objects 273. While similar allegations have been circulating in unpublished form for years, a team of philosophers from oxford university has just released a damning report claiming that they were systematically unable to reproduce the results of. Saul kripke, genius logician a short, nontechnical interview by andreas saugstad, february 25, 2001. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from. Saul kripkes archive on the cuny philosophy commons second annual saul kripke lecture by john burgess on the necessity of origin at the cuny graduate center, november th, 2012 saul kripke at the mathematics genealogy project. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. For example, we take it to be the case that it is contingent that the first postmaster of the united states is identical with the inventor of bifocals i. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from identity and necessity give a sketch of kripke s argumentation against the identity theory and discuss it. Applied to our news story about homer, the device of rigid designators guarantees that if we are referring at all by the name homer. Kripken tyolla on ollut huomattava vaikutus logiikassa ja kielifilosofiassa. This view is defended by first distinguishing between the terms rigid and nonrigid designator, and the notions of a prioricity and necessity. Kripke claims that i and ii are selfevident theses of philosophical logic independent of. This entry is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercialsharealike 4.
Here the latter must be given primary emphasis, but the former will not be entirely neglected. Arial times new roman symbol default design saul kripke, identity and necessity an apparent paradox the paradox with proper names identities in science rigid vs. Let me turn to the case of heat and the motion of molecules. A problem which has arisen frequently in contemporary philosophy is.
On a derivation of the necessity of identity saul kripke s lecture identity and necessity 1971 begins with a short discussion of a formal derivation of a law of necessity of identity. Hence, before moving on to refinements in characterizing the notion of rigidity, consider a famous application made by saul kripke, who coined the word rigid designator. From this kripke concludes that the identity claim between pain and cfiber stimulation is not a necessary. Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of. Feb 17, 2011 within the lectures in which kripke introduced rigid designators, he applied the idea to the identity statements proposed by identity theorists. Identity and necessity 185 think, contrary to most recent theorists, that the reference of names is rarely or almost never fixed by means of description. Saul kripke resigned yesterday from his position as distinguished professor of philosophy at the cuny graduate center. Saul kripke is a philosopher and logician and emeritus professor at princeton. Saul kripke, in full saul aaron kripke, born november, 1940, bay shore, long island, new york, u. Saul kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Naming and necessity 195 h t the thing which we saw in the evening is the thing which we saw in. Kripke, in his 1971 essay, identity and necessity reprinted 2011, in kripke, philosophical troubles, collected papers, volume 1, argues on grounds of leibnizian indiscernibility of identicals that identity relations are necessary.
Saul kripke s archive on the cuny philosophy commons second annual saul kripke lecture by john burgess on the necessity of origin at the cuny graduate center, november th, 2012 saul kripke at the mathematics genealogy project. It has usually been taken for granted in the one case by kant that synthetic a priori judgments were possible, and in the other case in. The derivation has become rather well known, but perhaps not so well understood. That identity statements between what we call names in actual language are necessary. To be clear, kripke meant for his argument to apply to claims made by both kinds of identity theorists 148, naming. Materialism, in this form, often now gets involved. Kripkes defense of 3, the necessity of identity, stems from his anticounterpart theory.
Saul kripke argues that any such identity statement where a mental state is said to be identical to a physical state is false based solely on the structure of the statements. Han on princetonin yliopiston emeritusprofessori ja on sen jalkeen opettanut new yorkin kaupunginyliopiston cuny graduate centerissa. A sense is supposed to be that which is grasped by the mind, a meaning in some nontechnical sense. Those ways of reading it are interesting, but i think that what kripke is saying is, in the end, quite simple, which is why the book has enjoyed such lasting popularity. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming. Thus i will hold off questioning the rigidity of pain until later. A prioricity and qualitatively identical situations 4. He is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the graduate center of the city university of new york and emeritus professor at princeton university. Saul kripke 19801971 the identity thesis excerpt from identity and necessity give a sketch of kripkes argumentation against the identity theory and discuss it. Kripke on the distinctness of the mind from the body je. The inconclusiveness of kripkes argument agaimst the identity theory richard double in the widelyread papers naming and necessity1 and identity and necessity,2 saul kripke develops an argument against the mindbody identity theory, relying crucially on the doctrine of the essential painfulness of pains. This question is phrased by analogy with the way kant phrased his question how are synthetic a priori judgments possible. Jun, 2019 in this lecture, professor saul kripke takes the opportunity to revisit some of the more controversial points in his seminal work naming and necessity. 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.
Whereas kripke himself only claimed to offer a better picture of names than the cluster theory, almost immediately. Kripke is not the first philosopher to discuss the idea behind the term he coined, but his illuminating discussions have made the importance of rigidity widely appreciated. Please visit the saul kripke centers new website here. Click download or read online button to get saul kripke book now. He is best known for reintroducing modal concepts, such as necessity and possibility, with his landmark works naming and necessity and identity and necessity, as well as his popularizing gottfried leibnizs notion of possible worlds as a way of analyzing the concepts of a priori, analytic, and necessary. So, if it is a case of contingent identity, then let us imagine under what circumstances it would be. Authors saul kripke cuny graduate center abstract are synthetic a priori judgements possible. It is a point, made by donnellan,l that under certain circumstances a. Recent philosophy has emphasized this again and again. In the lectures kripke is responding to previous attempts to solve certain problems in the philosophy of language. Buy a cheap copy of naming and necessity book by saul a. Kripkes refutation of identity theory a rigid designator. The book reads as partly expository, and partly polemical. Christopher hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of kripke s central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence, natural kinds, and.
Marcus, kripke, and the origin of the new theory of. In this paper, presented at an apa colloquium in boston on december 28, 1994, it is argued that ruth barcan marcus 1961 article on modalities and intensional languages originated many of the key ideas of the new theory of reference that have often been attributed to saul kripke and others. Kripke began with a consideration of the fregean analysis of the meaning of a sentence as a function of the referents of its parts. On a derivation of the necessity of identity princeton university. In doing so, he develops a framework that he applies to the. Identity sentences and the necessary a posteriori 97105 7 4. Explorations in the philosophical work of saul explorations in the philosophical work of saul kripke, j. Saul kripkes discussion of the necessary aposteriori in naming and necessity and identity and necessity in which he lays the foundation for distinguishing epistemic from metaphysical possibility, and explaining the relationship between the two is, in my opinion, one of the. Kripke distinguished professor in the programs of philosophy and computer science saul kripke center cuny graduate center. Saul kripke project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Giving the semantic content this is one facet of a fregean sense. In both cases, ithas usually been t aken for granted in fife one case by kant that synthetic a priori. Naming and necessity by saul kripke colin hostetter. Kripke, naming and necessity in harman and davidson, eds.
Saul kripkes lecture identity and necessity 1971 begins with a short discussion of a formal derivation of a law of necessity of identity. In his famous work naming and necessity, saul kripke presents an argument against the materialists identity theory of mind. 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. Nov 21, 2015 in his famous work naming and necessity, saul kripke presents an argument against the materialists identity theory of mind. In reading naming and necessity, it is clear that saul kripke stands in a similar position. Pdf on nov 1, 2005, consuelo preti and others published kripke. Saul kripke s naming and necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Are there things about us that are so important that changing them changes our identity on this fundamental level. Lectures given to the princeton university philosophy colloquium. Much of the argument depends on conclusions drawn earlier in his work. Saul kripke, identity and necessity driving question. The inconclusiveness of kripke s argument agaimst the identity theory richard double in the widelyread papers naming and necessity 1 and identity and necessity,2 saul kripke develops an argument against the mindbody identity theory, relying crucially on the doctrine of the essential painfulness of pains.
A great deal of the books brilliance lies in the astonishing simplicity of his solution to some of philosophys most fiendish puzzles and the ease with which he lectures reveals the powerful grasp he has on the issues he describes. The discussion here brings to bear many of the results from earlier in the book, including rigid designation, the necessity of identity, the possibility of necessary a posteriori truths, and. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and o. Kripke on the distinctness of the mind from the body. Names, necessity, and identity find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Naming and necessity by saul kripke that marcus family. Saul kripke his glass, and there may be another man in the room who does have champagne in his glass, the speaker intended to refer, or. He made important contributions to several areas of philosophy, including logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence.
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