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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Kripke (Was: A rock implements every FSA)
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In article <1992Apr18.222441.27486@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

>Can anyone point me to books or articles by Kripke subsequent to 
>"Naming and Necessity"?  I just noticed that in Putnam's "Realism 
>and Reason," first published in 1983, he refers to nothing later
>than the 1972 N&N.  The same seems to be true of the 1989 "Representation
>and Reality," but I'm not as certain since R&R has no bibliography.
>Either Kripke's work in the last twenty years is not relevant to the
>topics of Putnam's essays, or Kripke has ceased publishing.  Which
>is the case?

Kripke publishes notoriously little.  His two best-known pieces
since N&N are the monograph _Wittgenstein on Rules and Private
Language_ (Harvard, 1980) and the article "A Puzzle About Belief"
(originally in a 1979 book _Meaning and Use_; reprinted many
times, e.g. in (Salmon and Soames, ed) _Propositions and Attitudes_
(Oxford 1988).  Both of these, especially the former, have
generated cottage industries of discussion in the philosophical
literature.  Take a look at the Philosophers' Index (which is
available on CD-ROM as well as in hardcopy) for further articles.

I think you'll find that he's written little, if anything, on
the issues in N&N ("A Puzzle About Belief" is certainly related,
but it bears more on naming than on necessity), except of course
for the introduction to the book version.  For a nice discussion
of some of the issues raised concerning conceptual vs. metaphysical
vs. physical necessity, see Putnam's "Is Water Necessarily H2O?"
in his recent collection _Realism with a Human Face_.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


