Rereading the Kripkean Intuition on Reference

Fregean versus Kripkean Reference*

Millianism is the view that, from a semantical viewpoint, proper names simply refer; there is no further semantically relevant function they play. As the case of indexicals makes very clear, most of the considerations in Naming and Necessity that people find plausible are compatible with the falsity of Millianism. Besides, there are good reasons to consider that thesis false. Millians grant tha...

Rereading Einstein on Radiation

Albert Einstein tinha um talento genial para extrair teoria revolucionária de simples considerações: do postulado de uma velocidade universal, ele criou a relatividade especial; do prinćıpio da equivalência, ele criou a relatividade geral; de argumentos elementares baseados em estat́ıstica, ele descobriu os quanta de energia. Seu artigo de 1905 sobre a quantização do campo de radiação (frequente...

Tarskian and Kripkean truth

A theory of the transfinite Tarskian hierarchy of languages is outlined and compared to a notion of partial truth by Kripke. It is shown that the hierarchy can be embedded into Kripke’s minimal fixed point model. From this results on the expressive power of both approaches are obtained.

The Philosophical Significance of The Kripkean Necessary

Deriving and Validating Kripkean Claims

Saul Kripke has advanced interesting metaphysical and semantic claims that have strong appeal and engender conviction. In some cases, Kripke suggests that these claims constitute only a ‘picture’ rather than a theory, while in others, it is clear that the claims in question constitute a (formally) precise theory. In the former case, it is important to determine whether one can turn the picture ...