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Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures
Saul A. Kripke
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Description for Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures
Hardcover. This volume collects Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures, which were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Delivered in Kripke's usual extemporaneous style, for years the lectures have only been available as a transcription that has been informally exchanged among philosophers. This volume, which publishes the lectures in book form for the first time, follows up on some of the themes on language that Kripke started to explore in his most famous work, Naming and Necessity. The first topic that Kripke examines is the relationship of naming to existence, in particular the problem of names that are empty i.e. which refer to non-existent objects such as fictional ... Read more
Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Delivered in Kripke's usual extemporaneous style, for years the lectures have only been available as a transcription that has been informally exchanged among philosophers. This volume, which publishes the lectures in book form for the first time, follows up on some of the themes on language that Kripke started to explore in his most famous work, Naming and Necessity. The first topic that Kripke examines is the relationship of naming to existence, in particular the problem of names that are empty i.e. which refer to non-existent objects such as fictional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199928385
SKU
V9780199928385
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About Saul A. Kripke
Saul A. Kripke is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Princeton University. Author NAMING AND NECESSITY (1980), WITTGENSTEIN ON RULES AND PRIVATE LANGUAGE (1982), PHILOSOPHICAL TROUBLES (OUP 2011)
Reviews for Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures
For one thing, Reference and Existence includes many long, substantive footnotes (obviously composed very recently) that demonstrate that in his [Kripke's] seventies he is capable of philosophical thinking of the same high order that made him famous when he was a young man ... I cannot possibly convey, within the scope of this review, the subtlety, richness and beautiful logical ... Read more