Work
Naming and Necessity
Overview
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 them, he deals with the debates over proper names in the philosophy of language and claims to refute Immanuel Kant's classical assumption that all necessary truth is known a priori.
The transcript was brought out originally in 1972 in Semantics of Natural Language, edited by Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman. Among analytic philosophers, Naming and Necessity is widely considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. The title is a reference to Rudolf Carnap's book Meaning and Necessity, which, like Naming and Necessity, is about semantics and modal logic.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Naming and Necessity
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- David Chalmers
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Saul Kripke
- Gottlob Frege
- Gareth Evans (philosopher)
- David Wiggins
Related ideas
- Mind–body problem
- Natural kind
- General relativity
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- Analytic philosophy
- Kurt Gödel
- Gilbert Harman
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Contingency (philosophy)
- Princeton University
- P. F. Strawson
- Richard Nixon
- David Chalmers
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Empirical evidence
- Aristotle
- Circular reasoning
- University of Oxford
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Descriptivist theory of names
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.