172 Pp. Hard Cover. First Printing Of This 1980 Edition, Corrected Throughout And Slightly Revised, With A New Preface By Kripke. Near Fine, A Few Lines On Three Pages Each Lightly Underlined In Ink; No Names, No Other Marks. The Fragile Unlaminated Jacket Is Near Fine, Three 1/6" To 1/8" Tears At Edges, Clean, Very Slight Browning To Spine Panel. A Philosophical Concern For The Logical Use Of Language, But Not Addressing The Larger Issue Of Naming Itself As Always Being A Political Act, Selective And Prejudiced And Intensional, A Personal Activity Of Indefinably Immense Preconditions, Characteristics And Consequences, Ultimately Unrelated To And Oblivious To The Logical Implications.

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Title

Naming and Necessity

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0674598458

ISBN 13

9780674598454

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.

Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. 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. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind.

This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

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Saul Kripke, McCosh Professor of Philosophy,Princeton, is a philosopher of international reputation. His Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press, 1980) is also available in paperback.

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