In lecture 3, kripke generalizes this explanation to all cases. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. Argument and intuition in kripkes naming and necessity chapter 2. Naming and necessity lecture 1 summary course hero. Saul kripkes naming and necessity consists of revised transcriptions of three lectures given at princeton university in 1970. Speaks refers to me, that the name aristotle refers to aristotle, that the name hesperus refers to the planet venus, and so on. Kripke lecture 3 if w is a world where aristotle never went into philosophy, d is true, e is false and f is true. I finally turn to an all too cursory discussion of the application of the foregoing considerations to the identity thesis. If e antiintemalist admits this, admits that it is logically. And he claims that theoretical statements purporting to.
Identity theorists have been concerned with several distinct types of identifications. Naming and necessity 3 the preface first, but that they return to it for clarification if necessary after they have read the main text. It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under this heading has been widely held. Kripke, naming and necessity in harman and davidson, eds.
Rigid designators stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Kripkes most important philosophical publication, naming and necessity 1980, based on transcripts of three lectures he delivered at princeton in 1970, changed the course of analytic 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. I will ar gue that we should put the nec essity back into naming. In lecture iii of naming and necessity, kripke suggests an answer to each of these questions. Even if we assume that the referent of a name like aristotle is fixed by means of a definite. Peter ludlow, yujin nagasawa, and daniel stoljar eds. He was the first to raise the issue ofmeaning by formulating an organized theory of meaning for a part.
The preface is not written in such a way as to be completely selfcontained. Each of the homework assignments consists of a question or several on the reading, which is also assigned at that time. The initial baptisms, so to speak, give the same name. The third lecture is sadly poorly written and argued someone else already commented on it in this stream below, i agree with that reader. For if aristotle and the most famous pupil of plato dont have the same meaning, then 1 and 2 are not synonymous, and may well express different propositions 2 may be necessary, but 1 is contingent. Exactly one person was last among the great philo sophers of antiquity, and. And we can always turn a nonrigid description the f into a rigid description by using the. The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in semantics of natural language, edited by donald davidson and gilbert harman. Ever since the publication of its original version, naming and necessity has had great and increasing influence. Naming and necessity has had a great and increasing influence. Saul kripke begins the second lecture by reiterating the various theses of the fregerussell perspective and related cluster concept of naming.
Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity. Pdf naming and epistemic necessity dilip ninan academia. The first lecture provides a brief historical survey of the. Responses to reading questions rq1 that are assigned throughout the semester. Find a summary of this and each chapter of naming and necessity. Undergraduates must have our written permission to enroll in the course. So, we have counter example to the consistency between apriority and necessity lecture ii the cluster theory of naming involves the following theses. Starting with lectures given by david kaplan in, and c. A posteriori necessities and the illusion of contingency kripke ends lecture ii, and starts lecture iii, by discussing certain sorts of identity sentences as examples of the necessary a posteriori. Kripke, naming and necessity, lecture ii putnam \rethinking mathematical necessity 19901995 recommended. Other articles where naming and necessity is discussed. Chapter summary for saul kripkes naming and necessity, lecture 1 summary. Naming and necessity iii for atime theantiessentialistiswinning. I will also make any handouts you need to complete a particular assignment here.
Oct 02, 2020 gottlob frege may be considered as the first intellectual giant in thephilosophy of language. First, for a given speaker gottlob frege and bertrand russell associate a name with a cluster of qualities that they believe apply to the referent of a name. It is enough to note that the view he criticizes under. An earlier monograph, naming and necessity, argued that this approach was wrong from the fundamentals, replacing it with a picture that emphasizes the causalhistorical link between a name and its bearer.
We have been talking throughout this class about the reference of proper names. Furthermore, because of the use of tools involving reference and. In lectures delivered at princeton in the winter of 1970, saul kripke offered a. Kripke, naming and necessity cc o madagain lecture 1 names by a name k means a proper name. Kripke, lecture 1 from naming and necessity plantinga, the nature of necessity. In a series of lectures, published as the book naming and necessity, kripke makes a corresponding philosophical case for rejecting several. On the other hand it does seem to support surprising conclusions about the modal status of identity statements. Exam 3 due m nov 30 kripke, naming and necessity, end of lecture i pp. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. January 20, 19701 i hope that some people see some connection between the two topics in the title. Naming and necessity lecture 2 i to every name or designating expression there corresponds a cluster of properties.
Naming and necessity, lecture ii kripkes critique of the. Excerpt from naming and necessity, lecture 3, pages 144155. In one such study, naming and necessity 1972, the american philosopher saul. If not, anyway, such connections will be developed in the course of these talks. According to the fregerussell paradigm, the name nixon refers to its bearer in virtue of an associated description, one that picks out nixon by uniquely characterizing him. He claims, first, that natural kind terms are rigid designators much as names are, that we can refer to kinds as well as to things and so can discover truths about kinds as well as about things. In naming and necessity, kripke leaves the modal argument there. When a relevant assignment handout is available, i will send out an email informing you of this fact. It is a common claim in contemporary philosophy and. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties. It provided the first cogent account of necessity and possibility as metaphysical concepts, and it. Naming and necessity lecture 2 summary course hero.
We had nicer beer this time to complement the larger numbersbecks and heineken instead of the usual schlitz and old style. Naming and necessity, lecture ii kripkes critique of the description and kripkes own theory of names general theses of the description theory. Kripkes hypothesis works well when we consider the interaction of singular terms with metaphysical modals, but runs into trouble. The intemalist qggeststhat we cannot imagine that particular we callthe queen ving theproperty ofatnostageinher existencebeinghuman. The ideas in naming and necessity evolved in the early sixties most of the views were formulated in about 196364. Pdf on sep 15, 2007, zsofia zvolenszky published naming with necessity find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. We shall continue to focus on the objections to the descriptivist theory. Hence, we know apriori that propositions 14 are necessary, if. Hempel, empiricist criteria of cognitive significance notes.
With the exception of kripkes book, readings will either be posted to blackboard or handed. Philosophy 5 lecture 07 kripkes naming and necessity i. Yet there comesatime when his claims appear a tribe too far fetched. In lecture iii of naming and necessity, kripke suggests. Dilip ninan tufts university abstract kripke 1980 hypothesizes a link between rigidity and scope. Pdf arguments against descriptivism in naming and necessity. Late 20th century philosophy w nov 25 kripke, naming and necessity, start of lecture i pp. Evidently, the necessity of one is about to begin writing if and only if one is about. 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. Apr 04, 2005 on thursday the largest group of students in workshop history assembled to discuss lecture i of naming and necessity.
Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language. And i really liked it, at least the first two lectures as well as parts of the addenda and the intro. Fe 3 kripke, naming and necessity, lecture i ii lycan,3842, 4561. Thus the phenomenon of rigidity casts no real doubt on the description theory of names. Putnam, \it aint necessarily so 1962, soames, philosophical analysis in the 20th century, vol 2, chap. Kripkes critique of the description theory of names recap from his lecture i. Among analytic philosophers, naming and necessity is widely considered one. Jul 29, 2019 naming and necessity was mentioned as one of the eminent texts for this practice. Kripke distinguishes among names, definite descriptions, and designators. This seminal work, to which todays thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface. Clare batty kripke, naming and necessity, lecture iii 1. Fe 10 kripke, naming and necessity, lecture iii putnam, meaning and reference lycan, 6166 fe 12 milestone 2 24fe kripke, a puzzle about belief indexials. The group included several prospective graduate students. In lecture iii of naming and necessity, kripke suggests an.
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