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Reference and Existence : The John Locke Lectures

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  • "Saul A. Kripke's Reference and Existence, the 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 linguistics 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 provded 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. -- Book Jacket."
  • "Saul Kripke's 'Locke Lectures' were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Delivered in Kripke's usual extemporaneous style, for years the lectures have only been available as a transcription that has been informally exchanged among philosophers. This volume, which publishes the lectures, follows up on some of the themes on language that Kripke started to explore in his most famous work 'Naming and Necessity'"

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