Reference and Existence

The John Locke Lectures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23399415
AutoresSaul A Kripke (0000-0001-7993-9456, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas170
Fecha de publicación2013-05-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaReference and Existence (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199928385.001.0001
OpenAlexW4252293776
Open LibraryOL27589318M
ISBN9780199928385
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas100

Saul A. Kripke's Reference and Existence, the John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that fictional characters like Hamlet, or mythical kinds like bandersnatches, might have existed). In treating these questions, he makes a number of methodological observations that go beyond the framework of his earlier book- including the striking claim that fiction cannot provide a test for theories of reference and naming. In addition, these lectures provide a glimpse into the transition to the pragmatics of singular reference that dominated his influential paper, "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference"- a paper that helped reorient linguistics and philosophical semantics. Some of the themes have been worked out in later writings by other philosophers- many influenced by typescripts of the lectures in circulation- but none have approached the careful, systematic treatment provded here. The virtuosity of Naming and Necessity- the colloquial ease of the tone, the dazzling, on-the-spot formulations, the logical structure of the overall view gradually emerging over the course of the lectures- is on display here as well. -- Book Jacket.

Art · Counterintuitive · Epistemology · HAMLET (protein complex) · Linguistics · Literature · Possible world · Proposition · Utterance · Value (mathematics) · Virtue · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Ontology · Reference (Philosophy)