Contingent a priori truths : metaphysics, semantics, epistemology and pragmatics / Marco Ruffino.
Ruffino, Marco Antonio Caron, 1963-
2022
BD181.3 .R84 2022
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Title Contingent a priori truths : metaphysics, semantics, epistemology and pragmatics / Marco Ruffino.
Author Ruffino, Marco Antonio Caron, 1963-
ISBN 9783030866228 (electronic bk.)
303086622X (electronic bk.)
9783030866211
3030866211
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86622-8
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-86622-8 doi
Call Number BD181.3 .R84 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 121/.3
Summary 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 Kripkes 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 Kripkes 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 Freges 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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Series Synthese library ; v. 443.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Starting Point: Kripkes "Magic"
Chapter 2. Indexicals and Kaplans Cases
Chapter 3. Donnellan and the Acquaintance Requirement
Chapter 4. The Experience Requirement
Chapter 5. Kripkes Reformulation of the Contingent A Priori
Chapter 6. Evans and The Varieties of Contingency
Chapter 7. Two-Dimensionalism
Chapter 8. Some Other Cases
Chapter 9. Basic Tools: Elements of a Theory of Speech Acts
Chapter 10. Stipulations as Performatives
Chapter 11. One Ancestor: The Early Frege on Definitions
Chapter 12. Global Conclusions: The Varieties of ContingentA Priori Truths
Index.

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