Kripke by John P. Burgess - 9780745652849

KripkeAuthor(s): John P. Burgess\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745652849, 978-0745652849\nSynopsis\nSaul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece,Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent. Although much of his work remains unpublished, several major essays have now appeared in print, most recently in his long-awaited collectionPhilosophical Troubles. In this book Kripkes long-time colleague, the logician and philosopher John P. Burgess, offers a thorough and self-contained guide to all of Kripkes published books and his most important philosophical papers, old and new. It also provides an authoritative but non-technical account of Kripkes influential contributions to the study of modal logic and logical paradoxes. Although Kripke has been anything bu.