Kripke: Names, Necessity, and Identity

by Christopher Hughes

Overview

Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence, natural kinds, and the relation between the mental and the physical. No specialist knowledge in either the philosophy of language or metaphysics is presupposed; Hughes's book will be valuable for anyone working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199288687
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2006
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

King's College London

Table of Contents

1. Names
2. Necessity
3. Identity, Worlds, and Times
4. The Mental and the Physical

Editorial Reviews

"A fine piece of work...Hughes's exposition is accurate and sophisticated, and his coverage is more than adequate. ...this is all the Kripke that you need to know about."—London Review of Books

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