Contingent A Priori Truths: Metaphysics, Semantics, Epistemology and Pragmatics: 443 (Synthese Library, 443) - Hardcover

Ruffino, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030866211 ISBN 13: 9783030866211

Publisher: Springer, 2022

Synopsis

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke, the author also presents a new approach to these truths.

The first part of the book details the many theories on contingent a priori truths. The coverage examines the cases of Kripke and David Kaplan, Donnellan and the de re requirement, Evans and weak contingency, as well as Plantinga, Salmon, Soames, and the pseudo a priori. Overall, it provides a systematic discussion and critical review of all these many positions.

Next, the author develops an alternative approach. His working hypothesis is that performative verbs must play a central role in Kripke’s examples, even if they do not show up at the surface structure of the corresponding sentences. This opens up an entirely new way of looking at Kripke’s cases and of treating them by exploring some aspects of the theory of illocutionary acts. His discussion also examines brute facts and institutional facts, indexicals and performatives, as well as Frege’s theory of definitions.

Providing an authoritative exploration into contingent a priori truths, this book will be of interest to students, academics, and researchers in philosophy and logic.

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About the Author

Marco Ruffino is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. In philosophy from U.C.L.A. And an M.A. In logic and philosophy of science from the UNICAMP. He has several published articles on the philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and history of analytic philosophy (especially Frege).

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This monograph offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths. Building onto a theoretical framework developed by the philosopher and logician Saul Kripke, the author also presents a new approach to these truths.

The first part of the book details the many theories on contingent a priori truths. The coverage examines the cases of Kripke and David Kaplan, Donnellan and the de re requirement, Evans and weak contingency, as well as Plantinga, Salmon, Soames, and the pseudo a priori. Overall, it provides a systematic discussion and critical review of all these many positions.

Next, the author develops an alternative approach. His working hypothesis is that performative verbs must play a central role in Kripke’s examples, even if they do not show up at the surface structure of the corresponding sentences. This opens up an entirely new way of looking at Kripke’s cases and of treating them by exploring some aspects of the theory of illocutionary acts. His discussionalso examines brute facts and institutional facts, indexicals and performatives, as well as Frege’s theory of definitions.

Providing an authoritative exploration into contingent a priori truths, this book will be of interest to students, academics, and researchers in philosophy and logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030866211
• ISBN 13: 9783030866211
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 237