Reference and Existence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reference and Existence write by Saul A. Kripke. This book was released on 2018. Reference and Existence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work can be read as a sequel to Kripke's classic Naming and Necessity, confronting important issues left open in that work and developing a novel approach to questions concerning empty names and existence. It provides along the way novel treatments of fictional and mythological discourse, the pragmatics of definite and indefinite descriptions and the language of sense data.
Reference and Existence
Reference and Existence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reference and Existence write by Saul A. Kripke. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Reference and Existence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume collects Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures, which were delivered in Oxford in 1973.
Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming and Necessity write by Saul A. Kripke. This book was released on 1980. Naming and Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence write by Bruno Latour. This book was released on 2013-08-19. An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.
Denying Existence
Denying Existence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Denying Existence write by A. Chakrabarti. This book was released on 2013-03-14. Denying Existence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tries to explore, in language as non-technical as possible, the deepest philosophical problems regarding the logical status of empty (singular) terms such as `Pegasus', `Batman', `The impossible staircase departs in Escher's painting `Ascending-Descending'+ etc., and regarding sentences which deny the existence of singled-out fictional entities. It will be fascinating for literary theorists with a flair for logic, to students of metaphysics and philosophy of language, and for historians of philosophy interested in the fate of the Russell-Meinong debate. For teachers of these aspects of analytic philosophy this will provide a textbook which goes beyond the Western tradition (without plunging into any mystical Eastern `Emptiness', which is what some previous comparative philosophers did!).
