{"product_id":"reference-and-existence-saul-a-kripke-9780199928385","title":"Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures","description":"\u003cem\u003eReference and Existence\u003c\/em\u003e, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic \u003cem\u003eNaming and Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 linguistic 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 provided here. The virtuosity of \u003cem\u003eNaming and Necessity\u003c\/em\u003e -- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saul A. Kripke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019992838X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199928385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.83w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2013","brand":"Saul A. Kripke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054742401279,"sku":"9780199928385","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5b637b4-a24b-443d-8dfa-cb945fd1a862.jpg?v=1685031730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reference-and-existence-saul-a-kripke-9780199928385","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}