Introduction to Kripke / Alan Berger -- Part I. Naming, Necessity, Identity, and Apriority: 1. Kripke on proper and general names / Bernard Linsky; 2. Fiction, myth and reality / Nathan Salmon; 3. Kripke on epistemic and metaphysical possibility: two routes to the necessary a posteriori / Scott Soames; 4. Possible worlds semantics: philosophical foundations / Robert Stalnaker -- Part II. Formal Semantics, Truth, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Philosophy of Logic: 5. Kripke models / John Burgess; 6. Kripke on truth / John Burgess; 7. Kripke on logicism, Wittgenstein, and De re beliefs about numbers / Mark Steiner; 8. Kripke on the incoherency of adopting a logic / Alan Berger -- Part III. Language and Mind: 9. Kripke's puzzle about belief / Mark Richard; 10. A note on Kripke's puzzle about belief / Nathan Salmon; 11. On the skepticism about rule-following in Kripke's version of Wittgenstein / George Wilson; 12. Kripke on color words and the primary/secondary quality distinction / Mario Gómez-Torrente -- Part IV. Philosophy of Mind and Philosophical Psychology: 13. Kripke and Cartesianism / Sydney Shoemaker; 14. Not even computing machines can follow rules: Kripke's critique of functionalism / Jeff Buechner.
Summary
This collection of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke. Its essays, written by distinguished philosophers in the field, present a broader picture of Kripke's life and work than has previously been available to scholars of his thought. New topics covered in these essays include vacuous names and names in fiction, Kripke on logicism and de re attitude toward numbers, Kripke on the incoherency of adopting a logic, Kripke on colour words and his criticism of the primary versus secondary quality distinction, and Kripke's critique of functionalism. These essays not only present Kripke's basic arguments but also engage with the arguments and controversies engendered by his work, providing the most comprehensive analysis of his philosophy and writings available. This collection will become a classic in contemporary analytic philosophy.
