Saul Kripke

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A student's guide to the philosophy of Saul Kripke, a widely-studied yet notoriously challenging thinker

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Introduction	p. 1
Names	p. 5
The Frege-Russell thesis	p. 5
The modal argument	p. 16
The semantic argument	p. 30
The epistemological argument	p. 37
Summary	p. 40
Necessity	p. 41
Essential properties of individuals	p. 41
A Priori and essential properties of natural kinds	p. 59
Modal illusion	p. 72
Anti-materialism	p. 81
Summary	p. 98
Rule-following	p. 100
The sceptical challenge	p. 101
Possible answers to it	p. 107
Dispositionalism	p. 125
Summary	p. 134
Private language	p. 136
Outline of the sceptical solution	p. 137
Detail of the sceptical solution	p. 146
The argument against private language	p. 155
Summary	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 164
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