Title Statements
- Full title :Kripke.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2013
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication:Somerset
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (233 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780745676333, 0745676332
- oclc:on1058361074
- LC Classification:B945.K794 ǂb B874 2013eb
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Plan -- 1: Naming -- Mill vs Frege -- Error and Ignorance -- Metalinguistic Theories -- The Historical Chain Picture -- Reference vs Attribution -- 2: Identity -- Modal Logic and its Archenemy -- Rigidity -- The Necessity of Identity -- Resistance -- The Contingent a Priori -- 3: Necessity -- Imagination and the Necessary a Posteriori -- Natural Substances -- Natural Kinds -- Natural Phenomena and Natural Law -- The Mystery of Modality -- 4: Belief -- Direct Reference -- Puzzling Pierre -- Poles Apart -- Counterfactual Attitudes -- Empty Names -- 5: Rules -- Conventionalism -- Kripkenstein -- The Analogy with Hume -- The Skeptical Paradox -- The Skeptical Solution -- 6: Mind -- Physicalism -- Functionalism -- Against Functionalism -- Against Physicalism -- The Mystery of Mentality -- Appendix A: Models -- The Logic of Modality -- Kripke Models -- The Curse of the Barcan Formulas -- Controversy and Confusion -- Appendix B: Truth -- Paradox and Pathology -- Kripke vs Tarski -- Fixed Points -- The Intuitive Notion of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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