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Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity and Twenty‐First Century Philosophy

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ID20142287
AuthorsAndrea Bianchi (0000-0003-3544-9548, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries, Philosophy Unit University of Parma, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume88
Issue2
Pages278-295
Publication date2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/theo.12359
OpenAlexW4200354218
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

In this paper, I try to outline what I take to be Naming and Necessity 's fundamental legacy to my generation and those that follow, and the new perspectives it has opened up for twenty‐first century philosophy. The discussion is subdivided into three sections, concerning respectively philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaphilosophy. The general unifying theme is that Naming and Necessity is helping philosophy to recover a Golden Age, by freeing it from the strictures coming from the empiricist and Kantian traditions and reconnecting it to the world and the objects that populate it. Because of this, in the concluding paragraph I tentatively suggest that Kripke's philosophy may be seen as a sui generis form of naturalism

20th-century philosophy · American philosophy · Analytic philosophy · Art · Contemporary philosophy · Eastern philosophy · Empiricism · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphilosophy · Metaphysics · Modern philosophy · Naturalism · Paragraph · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Theme (computing) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science

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