Rigid Designation And Theoretical Identities
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Rigid Designation And Theoretical Identities
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Author : Joseph LaPorte
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013
Rigid Designation And Theoretical Identities written by Joseph LaPorte and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical identities.
Beyond Rigidity
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Author : Scott Soames
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-03
Beyond Rigidity written by Scott Soames and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.
Naming And Necessity
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Author : Saul A. Kripke
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1980
Naming And Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Exploring Meinong S Jungle And Beyond
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Author : Richard Routley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-15
Exploring Meinong S Jungle And Beyond written by Richard Routley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-15 with Philosophy categories.
In this first volume of The Sylvan Jungle, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, "Exploring Meinong's Jungle," of Richard Routley's 1000-plus page book, Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond. Going against the Quinean orthodoxy, Routley’s aim was to support Meinong’s idea that we can truthfully refer to non-existent and even impossible objects, like Superman, unicorns and the (infamous) round-square cupola on Berkeley College. The tools of non-classical logic at Routley’s disposal enabled him to update Meinong’s project for a new generation. This volume begins with an Introduction from Dominic Hyde, “The ‘Jungle Book’ in Context,” an essay that situates Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond historically. We provide the original Preface by Routley, followed by Chapter 1: “Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond.” In Chapter 2, Nicholas Griffin argues that Sylvan’s project was insufficiently radical with his essay, “Why the Original Theory of Items Didn’t (Quite) Go Far Enough.” Sylvan revisits his position from this time in Chapter 3, with his article, “Re-Exploring Item-Theory.” Filippo Casati, who has worked in the Routley Archives then takes up the question of the future of Sylvan’s research program in his essay, “The Future Perfect of Exploring Meinong’s Jungle.” Iconic and iconoclastic Australian philosopher Richard Routley (né Sylvan) published Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond in 1980. This work has fallen out of print, yet without great fanfare it has influenced two generations of philosophers and logicians.
Rigid Designation The Modal Argument And The Nominal Description Theory Electronic Resource
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Author : Jillian Alexandra Isenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Waterloo
Release Date : 2005
Rigid Designation The Modal Argument And The Nominal Description Theory Electronic Resource written by Jillian Alexandra Isenberg and has been published by University of Waterloo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Description (Philosophy) categories.
In this thesis, I describe and evaluate two recent accounts of naming. These accounts are motivated by Kripke's response to Russell's Description Theory of Names (DTN). Particularly, I consider Kripke's Modal Argument (MA) and various arguments that have been given against it, as well as Kripke's responses to these arguments. Further, I outline a version of MA that has recently been presented by Scott Soames, and consider how he responds to the criticisms that the argument faces. In order to evaluate the claim that MA is decisive against all description theories, I outline the Nominal Description Theory (NDT) put forth by Kent Bach and consider whether it constitutes a principled response to MA. I do so by exploring how Bach both responds to Kripke's arguments against descriptivism and highlights the problems with rigid designation as a purely semantic thesis. Finally, I consider the relative merits of the accounts put forth by Bach and Soames. Upon doing so, I argue that MA is not as decisive against description theories as it has long been thought to be. In fact, NDT seems to provide a better account of our uses of proper names than the rigid designation thesis as presented by Kripke and Soames.
Being Qua Being
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Author : Panayot Butchvarov
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Release Date : 1979-05-22
Being Qua Being written by Panayot Butchvarov and has been published by Indiana University Press (Ips) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-05-22 with Mathematics categories.
Are there nonexistent things? What is the nature of informative identity statements? Are the notions of essential property and of essence intelligible, and, if so, how are they to be understood? Are individual things material substances or clusters of qualities? Can the account of the unity of a complex entity avoid vicious infinite regresses? These questions have attracted widespread attention among philosophers recently, as evidenced by a proliferation of articles in the leading philosophical journals. In Being Qua Being they receive systematic, unified treatment, grounded in an account of the nature of the application to the world of our conceptual apparatus. A central thesis of the book is that the topic of identity is primary, and that existence and predication, both essential and accidental, are to be understood in terms of identity.
On Philosophy And Philosophers
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Author : Richard Rorty
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
On Philosophy And Philosophers written by Richard Rorty and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--
Naming And Necessity
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Author : Saul A. Kripke
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1991-01-08
Naming And Necessity written by Saul A. Kripke and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-08 with Philosophy categories.
Naming and Necessity has had a 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 naming, and of identity. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface by the author. If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics, or in philosophy of language, this is it.
Exploring Meinong S Jungle And Beyond
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Author : Richard Sylvan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Exploring Meinong S Jungle And Beyond written by Richard Sylvan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Identity And Individuation
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Author : Milton K. Munitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Identity And Individuation written by Milton K. Munitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Identity (Philosophical concept) categories.