Advanced Theoretical Philosophy: Foundations

Main literature:

Kripke, S. (1980) Naming and Necessity. 

Obligatory:

LaPorte, J. (2022) "Rigid Designators", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition), E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (eds.).

Levy, N. (2003) Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Explaining the Differences, Metaphilosophy 34(3): 284-304.

Potter, M. (2008) The Birth of Analytic Philosophy, in: D. Moran (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century, Routledge.

Icke-obligatorisk läsning:

Jones, K. (2009) Analytic versus Continental Philosophy, Philosophy Now. 

Kment, B. (2021) "Varieties of Modality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021 Edition), E.N. Zalta (ed.).

Kripke, S. (2013) Reference and Existence.

Mizrahi M. & M. Dickinson (2021) The Analytic-Continental Divide in Philosophical Practice: An Empirical Study, Metaphilosophy 52(5): 668-680.

Rey, G. (2023) "The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (eds.).

Russell, B. (2024) "A Priori Justification and Knowledge", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 Edition), E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (eds.).

Willard-Kyle, C. Guidelines for Being a Good Discussion Peer in Philosophy. Link HERE

Choose 2-3 from the texts below for your course paper:

Alward, P. (2009) “Cluster Theory: Resurrection” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue Canadienne de Philosophie 48(2): 269-289.

Ballarin, R. (2022) “On the Genealogy of Modality: The Necessity of Origin and the Origin of Necessity”, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8(3): 416-435.

Bianchi, A. “Dicing with Saul Kripke” (2010) Erkenntnis 73: 237-249.

Bolton, C.J. (1996) “Proper Names, Taxonomic Names and Necessity”, The Philosophical Quarterly 46(183): 145-157.

Cameron, R. (2005) “A note on Kripke’s Footnote 56 Argument for the Essentiality of Origin” Ratio, 18(3): 262-275.

Cameron R. & S. Roca (2006) “Rohrbaugh and deRosset on the Necessity of Origin” Mind, 115(458): 361-366.

Glüer, K. & P. Pagin (2006) “Proper Names and Relational Modality” Linguistics and Philosophy 29(5): 507-535.

Hoefer, C. & G. Martí (2019) "Water has Microstructural Essence After All", European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9: 1-15.

Häggqvist, S. & Å. Wikforss (2018) "Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms: Myth and Reality", British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, 69: 911-933.

Häggqvist, S. (2022) "No, Water (Still) doesn't Have a Microstructural Essence (Reply to Hoefer & Martí), European Journal for Philosophy of Sciene, 12(32): 1-13.

Janssen-Lauret, F. (2021) "Anti-Essentialism, Modal Relativity, and Alternative Material-Origin Counterfactuals", Synthese 199: 8379-8398.

Korte, T. (2022) "Frege's Answer to Kripke", Theoria, 88: 464-479.

Levin, J. (2007) “Can Modal Intuitions be Evidence for Essentialist Claims?” Inquiry, 50(3): 253–269.

Martí, G. (2020) "Names, Descriptions and Causal Descriptions. Is the Magic Gone?", Topoi, 39: 357-365.

McKinsey, M. (1978) "Kripke's Objections to Description Theories of Names", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 8(3): 485-497.

McKinsey, M. (2010) "Understanding Proper Names", Linguistics and Philosophy, 33(4): 325-354.

Pelman, A. (2014) “Theoretical identities may not be necessary” Analysis, 74(3): 412-422.

Robertson Ishii, T. “Two Senses of ‘Essence’ and a Straw Man”, Critica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 56(168): 3-27.

Rohrbaugh, G. & L. deRosset (2004) “A New Route to the Necessity of Origin” Mind, 113(452): 705-725.

Salmon, N. (1979) "How Not to Derive Essentialism from the Theory of Reference", Journal of Philosophy, 76(12): 703-725.

Sattig, T. (1998) “Proper Name Change” Theoria 13(3): 491-50.

(this list may be updated before the start of the module - but the changes will be minor)

All reading material (including Kripke’s book) can be accessed online by the students free of charge by the department.

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