Overview
- Offers a comprehensive study of contingent a priori truths
- Provides a systematic discussion and critical review of the many theories on contingent a priori truths
- Features a new approach to Kripke’s cases of contingent a priori truths based on speech act theory
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 443)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contingent A Priori Truths
Book Subtitle: Metaphysics, Semantics, Epistemology and Pragmatics
Authors: Marco Ruffino
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86622-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86621-1Published: 15 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86624-2Published: 16 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86622-8Published: 14 February 2022
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics