Naming and Necessity
Kripke (Saul)
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"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity


Abstract1
  • Ever since these lectures were first given at Princeton in 1970, they have constituted one of the main challenges to the 'Fregean' doctrine that the sense of a proper name is a cluster of descriptive information an object must fit to be the referent.
  • Kripke argues that proper names are rigid designators and among the consequences of these investigations is the contention that there are a posteriori necessary statements as well as a priori contingent statements.
  • The philosophical significance of Kripke's work, combined with its intuitive, informal lecture style makes it a regular favorite with students.

Paper Comment

This is the text of "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity", excerpted in "Harnish (Robert M.) - Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language". See Link.



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity")

Footnote 1: Taken from "Harnish (Robert M.) - Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language: Introduction".


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Preface"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Preface, pp. 1-7


Sections1
  1. Introduction
  2. Historical Background
  3. Names & Rigid Designation

Write-up2 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity - Preface

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Preface" – is the first 1/3 of the Preface only. See "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Appendix - Kripke’s Response To His Critics" for the latter part.



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Preface")

Footnote 1: Footnote 2:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture I"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Chapter 1


Sections1
  1. Introduction
  2. Naming
  3. Mill
  4. Frege & Russell
  5. Arguments Against Mill
  6. Quine
  7. Cluster Concept
  8. Reference Or Meaning?
  9. Five Distinctions
    • 9.1 Distinction 1 : “A Priori” Versus “A Posteriori”
    • 9.2 Distinction 2 – “Necessary” Versus “Sufficient”
    • 9.3 Distinction 3 – “Analytic” Versus “Synthetic”
    • 9.4 Distinction 4 – “Certainty”
    • 9.5 Distinction 5 – Modality2 “De Re” And “De Dicto”
  10. Identity Across Possible Worlds
  11. Counterpart Theory
  12. Necessary & Sufficient Conditions For Being A Particular Sortal3
  13. Rigid Designators
  14. Names As Rigid Designators
  15. Trans-World Identification
  16. Frege, Russell & Wittgenstein – Meaning Or Reference?
  17. Contingent A Priori Truths
  18. Using Actual-World Descriptions To Fix The Referent
  19. Frege & Russell On Names
  20. Frege On “Sense”
  21. The Special Case Of
  22. Searle’s Cluster Theory
  23. Cluster Theory – Formal Definition
  24. Cluster Theory - Critique
  25. Non-Circularity Condition

Write-up4 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity - Lecture I

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This note will relate to "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture I".



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture I")

Footnote 1:
  • For a précis and analysis of the whole book, click File Note (PDF)
  • The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
Footnote 4:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture II"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Chapter 2


Sections1
  1. The Cluster Theory Reviewed
  2. Examples of Problems with the Cluster Theory
  3. Lewis
  4. Languages
  5. Another Look at the 6 Theses of Cluster Theory
  6. Theses 1 - 5
  7. Can the Cluster Theory be Rescued?
  8. More on the Non-Circularity Condition
  9. Kripke’s Transmission Theory of Reference
  10. Does Kripke have a Theory?
  11. Necessary & Sufficient Conditions for Reference
  12. Are Identity Statements Necessary?
  13. Identities Between Proper Names

Write-up2 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity - Lecture II

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This note will relate to "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture II".



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture II")

Footnote 1:
  • For a précis and analysis of the whole book, click File Note (PDF)
  • The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
Footnote 2:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture III"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Chapter 3


Sections1
  1. Summary So Far
  2. Essences and “de re” Modality2
  3. The Essentiality of Origins
  4. Nominal Essences
  5. Natural Kinds3
  6. Species
  7. Are there Degrees of Necessity?
  8. Non-epistemological Necessity
  9. Essence Again
  10. Examples
    • 10.1 Water as H2O
    • 10.2 Light
    • 10.3 Heat
    • 10.4 Lightening
    • 10.5 Summary
  11. Recapitulation
    • 11.1 Singular and General Terms (Mill)
    • 11.2 Species Terms and Proper Names
    • 11.3 Properties and Natural Kinds4
    • 11.4 Science & Natural Kinds5
    • 11.5 Transmission of the Name of a Natural Kind6
    • 11.6 Primary & Secondary Qualities
    • 11.7 Objections to the Necessary a Posteriori
    • 11.8 Kripke’s Response to the Above Objections
    • 11.9 Qualitative Contingent Statements
  12. The Mind-Brain Identity Theory
  13. Token-Token Identity Theories
  14. Type-Type Identity Theories
  15. Analogies: C-fibres / Molecular Motion versus Pain / Heat
  16. Another Analogy – “What God had to Do”
  17. Identity Between Brain and Mind can’t be Contingent

Write-up7 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity - Lecture III

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This note will relate to "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture III".



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Lecture III")

Footnote 1:
  • For a précis and analysis of the whole book, click File Note (PDF)
  • The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
Footnote 3: Footnote 7:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Addenda"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Addenda


Sections1
  1. Unicorns
  2. “Can” To “Must”
  3. Non-circularity Condition
  4. Initial “Baptism”
  5. Santa Claus
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Necessity

Write-up2 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity -Addenda

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This note will relate to "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Addenda".



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Addenda")

Footnote 1:
  • For a précis and analysis of the whole book, click File Note (PDF)
  • The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
Footnote 2:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.


"Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Appendix - Kripke’s Response To His Critics"

Source: Kripke - Naming and Necessity, 1980, Preface, pp. 7-21


Sections1
  1. Non-Unique Names
  2. The Relation of Rigidity to Scope
  3. Why did Russell et al Oppose the Rigidity of Names?
  4. Possible Worlds
  5. Substitutability of Proper Names?
  6. Rigidity and Non-Existence

Write-up2 (as at 01/08/2017 00:11:31): Kripke - Naming and Necessity - Appendix

I wrote a detailed review and analysis of the whole book – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity" – when an undergraduate at Birkbeck. This document is still in a single pdf (see this link). However, I intend to break it out into individual Notes by Section. The “sectioning” is not Kripke’s, but relates to my analysis in the above document.
This – "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Appendix - Kripke’s Response To His Critics" – is the second 2/3 of the Preface only. See "Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Preface" for the former part.



In-Page Footnotes ("Kripke (Saul) - Naming and Necessity: Appendix - Kripke’s Response To His Critics")

Footnote 1: Footnote 2:
  • This is the write-up as it was when this Abstract was last output, with text as at the timestamp indicated (01/08/2017 00:11:31).
  • Link to Latest Write-Up Note.

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