Kripke: Names, Necessity, and Identity

by Christopher Hughes (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $159.87

  Christopher Hughes offers an exposition and analysis of Saul Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity, and in the process makes significant contributions to continuing debates about such topics as modality, essence, natural kinds, and the relation between the mental and the physical.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $55.10

  Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. This book offers an exposition and an analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and identity. It is useful for those working on the ideas which Kripke made famous in the philosophy world.