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Free Download Saul Kripke on Modal Logic by Yale Weiss, Romina Birman
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 443 Pages | ISBN : 3031576349 | 33 MB
This edited volume brings together papers by both eminent and rising scholars to celebrate Saul Kripke’s singular contributions to modal logic. Kripke’s work on modal logic helped usher in a new semantic epoch for the field and made facility with modal logic indispensable not only to technically oriented philosophers but to theoretical computer scientists and others as well. This volume features previously unpublished work of Kripke’s as well as a brief intellectual biography recounting the story of how Kripke became interested in, and made his first contributions to, modal logic. However, the majority of the volume’s contributions are forward-looking, and produce new philosophical and technical insights by engaging with ideas tracing back to Kripke.

Free Download The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins By Quentin Smith (auth.), Paul W. Humphreys, James H. Fetzer (eds.)
1998 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 0792355784 | PDF | 17 MB
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’.

Free Download Martin Gustafsson, "Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein "
English | ISBN: 1032139978 | 2023 | 314 pages | EPUB, PDF | 772 KB + 21 MB
This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.