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Scott Soames

2004384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2004
first published
  • 2005Princeton University Press · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780691121000
  • 2007Princeton University Press · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780691130996

"In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance."--Jacket.

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