Some lessons from kripkes a puzzle about belief core. Understanding kripkes puzzles about belief mcglone. This is so both for referentialists and descriptivists. One puzzle kripke presents in a puzzle about belief poses what would have seemed a fairly straightforward question about the beliefs of. Kripke distinguished professor in the programs of philosophy and computer science saul kripke center cuny graduate center 365 fifth avenue.
Wittgenstein on rules and private language wikipedia. But we dont get this result if names descriptions which always take wide scope over modal operators. After demonstrating how this serves as a solution to the puzzle, i illustrate some philosophical motivationsindependent of kripkes puzzlefor adopting a view on which belief is a partially defined predicate. His main thesis is that the puzzle is a puzzle and that, as such, any account of belief must ultimately come to grips with it.
Relocating kripke s puzzle about belief, this paper investigates i in what the puzzle consists, exactly. A french man named pierre is shown a postcard of london, or as he calls it, londres. The paderewski puzzle and the principle of substitution core. Kripkes belief puzzle kvart 2008 midwest studies in. This chapter applies the property theory of content to an important problem in the philosophy of mind and philosophical semantics, namely, saul kripkes puzzle about belief. Propositional attitude reports stanford encyclopedia of. You are, of course, familiar with the story of pierre.
Kripkes strategy since the millian kripkean theory of names is committed to s. View essay kripke puzzle from comm 497 at university of massachusetts, amherst. Doxastic logics attempt to represent the logic of belief greek. In his a puzzle about belief, kripke shows how the ordinary way in which we attribute belief to people leads to certain puzzles, which previously were thought to present a puzzle for anyone holding a view similar to mills on names. Kripkes puzzle about belief ted sider phil language 1. We find him commenting on the paradox of identity, the puzzle of belief, the paradox of the liar, the surprise exam paradox unpublished and so on. In this paper, i investigate the prospects for using the distinction between rejection and denial to resolve saul kripkes puzzle about belief. Kripkes belief puzzle, midwest studies in philosophy 10. And, as a corollary, that any account of belief must ultimately come to grips with it. Kripke a puzzle about belief in this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief. Belief reports of this form certainly appear to relate believers to things believed. Freges puzzles and fregeanism university of notre dame. He accepts, in french of course, many claims about the city elle est grande, jolie, dans angleterre, etc.
Saul kripke, edited by alan berger, is a collection of 14 new essays on kripkes work, along with a helpful introduction by berger. On the basis of what he has heard of london, he is. And, as a corollary, that any account of belief must ultimately come. In his famous 1979 article a puzzle about belief saul kripke presents two puzzles regarding belief attribution, and he uses them to cast doubt on classical substitution arguments against the millian view that a proper name has a denotation or reference but no connotation or sense. Introduction according to strict millianism, the meaning of proper names is exhausted by their reference. Saul kripke a puzzle about belief modal logic cicero. Essential to kripke s puzzle is a normative notion of contradictory belief. Mills view seems to imply that substitution of coreferential names pre. Against kripkes solution to the problem of negative existentials. It was put forward in kripke s a puzzle about belief. Using kripkes puzzle about belief as the stepping stone, this.
The moral is that it is useless to try to stop kripkes. The first section discusses the details of the puzzle and the principles associated with it. I conclude that there are decent prospects for the proposed response to. Kripkes puzzle concerns pierre, a monolingual frenchman who has heard of london he calls it londres. What could be more plausible than the supposition that a belief report of the form, a believes that p, is true only if the proposition that p is among the things that a believes. In this paper i will present a puzzle about names and belief. Kripke thinks this shows that the usual reason given for rejecting the substitution principle, namely that by rejecting it we can solve freges puzzle about belief, is not wholly convincing.
At least that, as kripke sees it, is how the traditional argument is supposed to work. Recall that the puzzle was to explain how our words get linked up. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that have occasionally been advanced in this area, but my main thesis is a simple one. Against kripkes solution to the problem of negative. Igal kvart 1987 midwest studies in philosophy 10 1.
Some puzzles about some puzzles about belief analysis. It was put forward in kripkes a puzzle about belief. Consider, for example, the negative existential statement. Hence, according to kripke, we should be less quick to give up the substitution principle and the strict millian semantics for names of which it is a. Representing belief, knowledge, and conditionals, a workshop hosted by the department of philosophy at the university of western ontario, january, 2004 psychological reports university of alifornia riverside, march, 2003. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripke s puzzle kripke s puzzle is an old and familiar story. Im not convinced that the fregean rebuttal has been successfully repelled by kripke in kripkes puzzle.
The guidebook is pretty strictly limited to kripkes single bestknown work, with brief discussion of speakers reference and semantic reference and a puzzle about belief as these become relevant. Chapter 2 kripkes puzzle and kent bachs theory shodhganga. Kripke develops two di erent sorts of paradoxes involving the following collection of intuitively plausible principles. Dennis maher in kripkes a puzzle about belief, the puzzle in question is one about the behavior of codesignative. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Kripke s puzzle about belief ted sider phil language 1.
Paderewski sitting at a piano gave an impression of a botticelli or a fra angelico angel. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripkes puzzle kripkes puzzle is an old and familiar story. Kripke puzzle dennis maher in kripkes\a puzzle about. What kripkes puzzle doesnt tell us about language, meaning or belief article in philosophia 3. Raised in france, he acquires the name londres as a name of london. Brandoms analysis of kripkes puzzle and the content of belief 2005. One of the features of kripkes philosophical preoccupations that can be seen in much of his work is his interest in puzzles and paradoxes. Kripkes locke lectures were not published in time to have allowed the author to. This chapter presents a puzzle about names and belief. The paderewski puzzle and the principle of substitution max deutsch university of summary in a puzzle about belief, kripke maintains that his famous paderewski puzzle cannot be solved simply by rejecting the substitution principle for coreferential proper names. Kripke in the paper a puzzle about belief1 draws our attention to the puzzle about.
In this paper i will present a puzzle about names and. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that have occasionally been advanced in this area, but the main thesis is a simple one. Suppose pierre is a normal french speaker who lives in france and speaks not a word of english or of any other language except french. In this paper kripke presents a puzzle about names and belief. Keith donnellan has advanced an interpretation of kripkes wellknown puzzle about belief according to which the puzzle concerns the true nature of beliefs. We have concluded our survey of the main accounts of propositional attitude reports and their problems. In this article i consider what i take to be the best responses of both parties and what we. Kripkes puzzle about belief bibliography philpapers. Kripke s strategy since the millian kripkean theory of names is committed to s, show that s is not responsible for substitutivity puzzles, because. How to refrain from answering kripkes puzzle springerlink. Brandoms analysis of kripkes puzzle and the content of belief. Academicphilosophy submitted 7 years ago by deleted his great puzzle is as follows. Dont londres and london have two different senses in that pierre associates londres with being pretty and london with. The twocomponent theory of proper names and kripkes puzzle.
Lecture notes introduction to philosophy of language. In response, kripkes 1979 a puzzle about belief advances, appropriately, a puzzle about belief that he claims illustrates that the same failures of substitutivity arise irrespective of millian or fregeanrussellian commitments. Kripke s puzzle is also a puzzle about doxastic logic and their ability to correctly represent our attributions of belief and our intuitions about belief. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. In this section i will deal with saul kripkes a puzzle about belief. See altrichters belief and possibility, the journal of philosophy, lxxxii, 1985.
Kripke will show that this argument, by itself, is insufficient. Kripkes belief puzzle kripkes belief puzzle kvart, igal 19870901 00. Pdf is kripkes puzzle about belief a genuine puzzle. In this section we shall briefly discuss further puzzles that any account of propositional attitude ascribing sentences must. Some lessons from kripkes a puzzle about belief jp smit department of philosophy, stellenbosch university, private bag x1, matieland, 7602, south africa email. Wittgenstein on rules and private language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language saul kripke, in which the author contends that the central argument of ludwig wittgenstein s philosophical investigations centers on a devastating rulefollowing paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language. The problem of negative existential statements, as i understand it, is the problem of explaining how negative existential statements could possibly be true see plantinga 1978, braun 1993 and brock 2004 for a detailed discussion of this and related problems. Am i way off on my response to kripkes belief puzzle. This paper provides a defense of the description theory of proper names by constructing a twocomponent theory of names. The puzzle gives rise to an argument that seems to refute one of the basic principles underlying our ordinary discourse about. In this section i will deal with saul kripke s a puzzle about belief.
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