The New theory of reference : Kripke, Marcus, and its origins
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The New theory of reference : Kripke, Marcus, and its origins
（Synthese library, v. 270）
Kluwer, 1998
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Several lectures and papers presented at various times and places
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University. They produced something of a sensation. In the lectures he argued, amongst other things, that many names in ordinary language referred to objects directly rather than by means of associated descriptions; that causal chains from language user to language user were an important mechanism for preserving reference; that there were necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori truths; that identity relations between rigid designators were necessary; and argued, more tentatively, that materialist identity theories in the philosophy of mind were suspect. Interspersed with this was a consider able amount of material on natural kind terms and essentialism. As a result of these lectures and a related 1971 paper, 'Identity and Necessity' (Kripke [1971]), talk of rigid designators, Hesperus and Phosphorus, meter bars, gold and H 0, and suchlike quickly became commonplace in philosophical circles 2 and when the lectures were published under the title Naming and Necessity in the collection The Semantics of Natural Language (Davidson and Harman l [1972]), that volume became the biggest seller in the Reidel (later Kluwer) list. The cluster of theses surrounding the idea that a relation of direct reference 2 exists between names and their referents is now frequently referred to as 'The 3 New Theory of Reference'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- P. Humphreys, J.H. Fetzer. Part I: The APA Exchange. Marcus, Kripke, and the Origin of the New Theory of Reference
- Q. Smith. Revisionism about Reference: A Reply to Smith
- S. Soames. Marcus and the New Theory of Reference: A Reply to Scott Soames
- Q. Smith. Part II: Replies. More Revisionism About Reference
- S. Soames. Marcus, Kripke, and Names
- J.P. Burgess. How Not to Write History of Philosophy: A Case Study
- J.P. Burgess. Direct, Rigid Designation and A Posteriori Necessity: A History and Critique
- Q. Smith. Part III: Historical Origins. Referential Opacity and Modal Logic
- D. Follesdal. An Exposition and Development of Kanger's Early Semantics for Modal Logic
- S. Lindstroem. A More Comprehensive History of the New Theory of Reference
- Q. Smith. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
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