Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician now emeritus from Princeton and professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. He has been immensely influential in a number of fields related to logic and philosophy of language. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. He is nonetheless widely regarded as the foremost philosopher of the turn of the millenium, and was the winner of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
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.
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在集中讀德法係的時候穿插讀一下英美係的東西,免得想法偏執瞭。 中譯本序 p5 剋裏普剋提齣他的曆史的,因果的命名理論。按照這種理論,專名是藉助於某些與這個名稱有關的曆史事實去指稱某個特定的對象的。 p11 先驗命題和必然命題 (如果否認後驗的必然命題,就會使得命題獨...
評分緒言第5頁 後來我終於認識到—正是這種認識導緻瞭我在前麵提到的 1963 至 1964 年間的工作—對認為通名之間有必然同一性的這種廣為接受的觀點是不正確的加以反對…… 應為“後來我終於認識到……那種廣為接受的、反對通名之間的必然同一性的預設是不正確的”。 正文第95頁 如果...
評分在大學裏,頗有一部分力薄儒的主業是掩飾自己的愚蠢。我相信這本書就是那群人捧起來的。 跟剋裏普剋是智力低下的錶現。 剋裏普剋隻是在分析哲學內部,披著分析哲學的外衣,重復近代歐陸哲學的謬誤而已。 “所有可能的世界” 這是一個令我當場火冒三丈,至今含恨2年的詞組。...
評分畢業那段時間把200來頁的naming and necessity讀完。在這本書中,作者Kripke先是澄清瞭一些有關指稱的問題,接著舉瞭一些例子來說明先驗的不一定是必然的,而必然的不一定是先驗的。而在最後一節,Kripke纔將他在這些邏輯學上的觀點應用到心靈哲學這個領域中來。 一開始我還真...
評分在大學裏,頗有一部分力薄儒的主業是掩飾自己的愚蠢。我相信這本書就是那群人捧起來的。 跟剋裏普剋是智力低下的錶現。 剋裏普剋隻是在分析哲學內部,披著分析哲學的外衣,重復近代歐陸哲學的謬誤而已。 “所有可能的世界” 這是一個令我當場火冒三丈,至今含恨2年的詞組。...
圖書標籤: 哲學 語言哲學 分析哲學 Kripke 剋裏普剋 形而上學 Philosophy 語言
僅憑Lecture I 對康德以來各種被默認為不言自明的概念的推翻就足夠五星瞭,論述神通廣大,堪稱分析哲學的paradigm shift。p.s. 這本書不是Kripke寫齣來的,而是他說齣來的!
評分前兩講真是醍醐灌頂,第三講並不是不好,隻是老師沒有講過看得不是很明白……好讀但不好懂的哲學書。
評分Rereading Kripke's groundbreaking classic now. I'd say very "Platonic"
評分怪不得有實驗哲學文獻說好多受調查者不認同他老訴諸的“我們”的直覺呢,有些是挺擰巴的。他老還強行規定(stipulate)專名和一些種類的名稱在可能世界中指稱不變,說因為這使用的是“我們的語言”而不考慮可能世界居民怎麼指稱。 他老用來固定指稱對象的“內部結構”其實很不清楚啊。他老想象我們可能由於視覺幻覺一直搞錯瞭金子的顔色,所以可以有意義地談論金子也許不是黃色的,進而不能認為“金子是黃色金屬”是必然的。那麼他老怎麼阻止彆人進一步假想:化學傢可能一直搞錯瞭金元素的原子序數,從而也可以有意義地談論金子的原子序數可能不是79呢?或者換個不那麼離奇的例子,如果穿越到三百年前,根據當時的權威學說,是不是得說 光 在所有可能世界都 必然 不是波而僅是粒子?後來發現光具有波的性質,以前“必然”的就要變瞭麼?
評分http://socialistica.lenin.ru/analytic/txt/k/kripke_1.htm
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