Am i way off on my response to kripkes belief puzzle. The paderewski puzzle and the principle of substitution core. In this paper i will present a puzzle about names and. The moral is that it is useless to try to stop kripkes. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripke s puzzle kripke s puzzle is an old and familiar story. And, as a corollary, that any account of belief must ultimately come. Mills view seems to imply that substitution of coreferential names pre. Against kripkes solution to the problem of negative existentials. Kripkes strategy since the millian kripkean theory of names is committed to s. Kripkes puzzle about belief bibliography philpapers. A surprising solution to kripkes puzzle frameworks for inquiry.
The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripkes. This is so both for referentialists and descriptivists. Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language. It was put forward in kripkes a puzzle about belief. Propositional attitude reports stanford encyclopedia of. I conclude that there are decent prospects for the proposed response to. Im not convinced that the fregean rebuttal has been successfully repelled by kripke in kripkes puzzle. This chapter presents a puzzle about names and belief.
Academicphilosophy submitted 7 years ago by deleted his great puzzle is as follows. After demonstrating how this serves as a solution to the puzzle, i illustrate some philosophical motivationsindependent of kripkes puzzlefor adopting a view on which belief is a partially defined predicate. Kripke distinguished professor in the programs of philosophy and computer science saul kripke center cuny graduate center 365 fifth avenue. At least that, as kripke sees it, is how the traditional argument is supposed to work. We find him commenting on the paradox of identity, the puzzle of belief, the paradox of the liar, the surprise exam paradox unpublished and so on. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that have occasionally been advanced in this area, but my main thesis is a simple one. Kripke in the paper a puzzle about belief1 draws our attention to the puzzle about.
In this paper kripke presents a puzzle about names and belief. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripkes puzzle. What could be more plausible than the supposition that a belief report of the form, a believes that p, is true only if the proposition that p is among the things that a believes. Some puzzles about some puzzles about belief analysis. Kripke s puzzle about belief ted sider phil language 1.
In this section we shall briefly discuss further puzzles that any account of propositional attitude ascribing sentences must. Doxastic logics attempt to represent the logic of belief greek. Introduction according to strict millianism, the meaning of proper names is exhausted by their reference. Saul kripke, edited by alan berger, is a collection of 14 new essays on kripkes work, along with a helpful introduction by berger. He accepts, in french of course, many claims about the city elle est grande, jolie, dans angleterre, etc. Consider, for example, the negative existential statement. One of the features of kripkes philosophical preoccupations that can be seen in much of his work is his interest in puzzles and paradoxes. And, as a corollary, that any account of belief must ultimately come to grips with it. View essay kripke puzzle from comm 497 at university of massachusetts, amherst. What kripkes puzzle doesnt tell us about language, meaning or belief article in philosophia 3.
Dennis maher in kripkes a puzzle about belief, the puzzle in question is one about the behavior of codesignative. In response, kripkes 1979 a puzzle about belief advances, appropriately, a puzzle about belief that he claims illustrates that the same failures of substitutivity arise irrespective of millian or fregeanrussellian commitments. This chapter applies the property theory of content to an important problem in the philosophy of mind and philosophical semantics, namely, saul kripkes puzzle about belief. The guidebook is pretty strictly limited to kripkes single bestknown work, with brief discussion of speakers reference and semantic reference and a puzzle about belief as these become relevant. Saul kripke a puzzle about belief modal logic cicero. Kripke puzzle dennis maher in kripkes\a puzzle about. Kripkes belief puzzle, midwest studies in philosophy 10. Kripke s strategy since the millian kripkean theory of names is committed to s, show that s is not responsible for substitutivity puzzles, because. Wittgenstein on rules and private language wikipedia. The problem of negative existential statements, as i understand it, is the problem of explaining how negative existential statements could possibly be true see plantinga 1978, braun 1993 and brock 2004 for a detailed discussion of this and related problems. How to refrain from answering kripkes puzzle springerlink. Kripke will show that this argument, by itself, is insufficient. Some lessons from kripkes a puzzle about belief core. This paper provides a defense of the description theory of proper names by constructing a twocomponent theory of names.
Against kripkes solution to the problem of negative. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripkes puzzle kripkes puzzle is an old and familiar story. Igal kvart 1987 midwest studies in philosophy 10 1. Paderewski sitting at a piano gave an impression of a botticelli or a fra angelico angel. Wittgenstein on rules and private language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language saul kripke, in which the author contends that the central argument of ludwig wittgenstein s philosophical investigations centers on a devastating rulefollowing paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language. Suppose pierre is a normal french speaker who lives in france and speaks not a word of english or of any other language except french.
Kripkes puzzle concerns pierre, a monolingual frenchman who has heard of london he calls it londres. Chapter 2 kripkes puzzle and kent bachs theory shodhganga. A puzzle about kripkes puzzle aporia current issue. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that have occasionally been advanced in this area, but the main thesis is a simple one. Using kripkes puzzle about belief as the stepping stone, this. Kripke develops two di erent sorts of paradoxes involving the following collection of intuitively plausible principles. Kripkes locke lectures were not published in time to have allowed the author to. See altrichters belief and possibility, the journal of philosophy, lxxxii, 1985. Relocating kripke s puzzle about belief, this paper investigates i in what the puzzle consists, exactly.
In his a puzzle about belief, kripke shows how the ordinary way in which we attribute belief to people leads to certain puzzles, which previously were thought to present a puzzle for anyone holding a view similar to mills on names. Recall that the puzzle was to explain how our words get linked up. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Kripkes belief puzzle kripkes belief puzzle kvart, igal 19870901 00. Essential to kripke s puzzle is a normative notion of contradictory belief. Kripke a puzzle about belief in this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief.
Kripkes belief puzzle kvart 2008 midwest studies in. On the basis of what he has heard of london, he is. Raised in france, he acquires the name londres as a name of london. Representing belief, knowledge, and conditionals, a workshop hosted by the department of philosophy at the university of western ontario, january, 2004 psychological reports university of alifornia riverside, march, 2003. Belief reports of this form certainly appear to relate believers to things believed. It was put forward in kripke s a puzzle about belief. Freges puzzles and fregeanism university of notre dame.
His main thesis is that the puzzle is a puzzle and that, as such, any account of belief must ultimately come to grips with it. The first section discusses the details of the puzzle and the principles associated with it. In this section i will deal with saul kripkes a puzzle about belief. Kripkes puzzle about belief ted sider phil language 1. Brandoms analysis of kripkes puzzle and the content of belief. Kripke s puzzle is also a puzzle about doxastic logic and their ability to correctly represent our attributions of belief and our intuitions about belief. In this article i consider what i take to be the best responses of both parties and what we. In this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief. A french man named pierre is shown a postcard of london, or as he calls it, londres. One puzzle kripke presents in a puzzle about belief poses what would have seemed a fairly straightforward question about the beliefs of. The puzzle gives rise to an argument that seems to refute one of the basic principles underlying our ordinary discourse about. Some lessons from kripkes a puzzle about belief jp smit department of philosophy, stellenbosch university, private bag x1, matieland, 7602, south africa email. Keith donnellan has advanced an interpretation of kripkes wellknown puzzle about belief according to which the puzzle concerns the true nature of beliefs. Brandoms analysis of kripkes puzzle and the content of belief 2005.
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