Philosophical Troubles (eBook)

This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "e;Identity and Necessity"e;, "e;Outline of a Theory of Truth"e;, "e;Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference"e;, and "e;A Puzzle About Belief."e; More recent published articles include "e;Russell's Notion of Scope"e; and "e;Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference"e; among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("e;Two Paradoxes of Knowledge"e;, "e;Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities"e;, "e;Nozick on Knowledge"e;) as well as newer ("e;The First Person"e; and "e;Unrestricted Exportation"e;). "e;A Puzzle on Time and Thought"e; was written expressly for this volume. Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.