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- ISBN 9781801360340
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book critiques positions argued for or assumed by Kripke, developing a largely Wittgensteinian philosophical position. Kripke’s views have shaped analytic philosophy for more than half a century, many becoming common orthodoxy. Ben-Yami, by contrast, criticizes and rejects many central ones. Rigidity of names, if maintained, should be significantly revised; the causal or communication picture of names is rejected; identity is contingent, as is the origin of things; the meaning of kind terms is not a function of any unknown essence; Kripke has failed to provide any example of necessary a posteriori knowledge or to support the concept of metaphysical necessity; his approach to the liar paradox is mistaken; he failed to understand Wittgenstein on rule following; and more. A different approach to logic, language, metaphysics, and philosophy emerges as the book’s critical reflections accumulate.
Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU Vienna) has published on philosophy of logic, language, mind, perception, spacetime, physics, Descartes, Wittgenstein, and more.
