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| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Metaphysics, Philosophy of language |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, Blackwell |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 184 |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-59845-4 |
| OCLC | 5726909 |
| 160 19 | |
| LC Class | BD417 .K74 |
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]
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.
- ^ Kripke, Saul. 1980. Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press: 22.
- ^ Davidson, D.; Harman, Gilbert (2012-12-06). Semantics of Natural Language. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401025577.
- ^ Soames, Scott. 2005. Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Volume 2: The Age of Meaning. Princeton University Press. Cited in Byrne, Alex and Hall, Ned. 2004. 'Necessary Truths'. Boston Review October/November 2004.
- ^ Bianchi, Andrea (Apr 2022). "Back to the Golden Age: Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity and Twenty-First Century Philosophy". Theoria. 88 (2): 278–295. doi:10.1111/theo.12359. ISSN 0040-5825.