Naming, Necessity and More

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Naming

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Why Rigidity?

      • Hanoch Ben-Yami

      Pages 3-21

   3. Tradition and Language

      • Meir Buzaglo

      Pages 22-36

3. Necessity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Over-Assignment of Structure

      • Eli Dresner

      Pages 39-53

   3. Modal Paradox

      • Teresa Robertson

      Pages 54-80

   4. Personal Identity: What’s the Problem?

      • Nathan Salmon

      Pages 81-125

4. Meaning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. A Fregean Look at Kripke’s Modal Notion of Meaning

      • Gilead Bar-Elli

      Pages 129-147

   3. Semantics in the Twilight Zone

      • Jonathan Berg

      Pages 148-165

5. Skepticism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Kripke’s Infinity Argument

      • Oron Shagrir

      Pages 169-190

   3. Kripke’s Paradox of Meaning

      • Paul Horwich

      Pages 191-201

   4. Skeptical Arguments in Hume and Wittgenstein

      • Mark Steiner

      Pages 202-220

6. Logic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. The Road to Gödel

      • Saul A. Kripke

      Pages 223-241

7. Back Matter

   Pages 243-245

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Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.

• Kripke
• Wittgenstein
• Frege
• Godel
• semantics
• modal logic
• rigid designators
• meaning
• necessity
• skepticism
• logic
• Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel

  Jonathan Berg

Gilead Bar-Elli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Hanoch Ben-Yami, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary Meir Buzaglo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Eli Dresner, Tel Aviv University, Israel Paul Horwich, New York University, USA Saul Aaron Kripke, CUNY Graduate Center Teresa Robertson, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nathan Salmon, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Oron Shagrir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Mark Steiner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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