UPC: 9780190660611 | Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures (Paperback)
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Reference and Existence Saul Kripke s John Locke Lectures for 1973 can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work — among them the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that fictional characters like Hamlet or mythical kinds like bandersnatches might have existed). In treating these questions he makes a number of methodological observations that go beyond the framework of his earlier book — including the striking claim that fiction cannot provide a test for theories of reference and naming. In addition these lectures provide a glimpse into the transition to the pragmatics of singular reference that dominated his influential paper Speaker s Reference and Semantic Reference — a paper that helped reorient linguistic and philosophical semantics. Some of the themes have been worked out in later writings by other philosophers — many influenced by typescripts of the lectures in circulation — but none have approached the careful systematic treatment provided here. The virtuosity of Naming and Necessity — the colloquial ease of the tone the dazzling on-the-spot formulations the logical structure of the overall view gradually emerging over the course of the lectures — is on display here as well.
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