Episode 126: Saul Kripke on Possibilities, Language & Science
Nov 02, 2015•2 hr 18 min
Episode description
On Naming and Necessity (1980). What's the relationship between language and the world? Specifically, what makes a name or a class term pick out the person or things that it does? Saul Kripke wanted to correct the dominant view of his time (which involved a description in the speaker's mind), and used talk of "possible worlds" to do it! With guest Matt Teichman.
End song: "Reason Enough" by Mark Lint.
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