Welcome Philosophy 295 students!

You have reached the website for the UVM Philosophy Department's Fall 2008 course on Naming and Necessity.

Click here to download a .pdf of the course syllabus, including an outline of topics.

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Class Notes and Handouts

Links to copies of my class notes and handouts will be posted here.

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "the problem of the semantic bond".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "some mysteries of necessity".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "Kripke on necessity and a priority".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Necessity-A Priority Correspondence Claim".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "Kripke on Analyticity, Designators, and Possible Worlds".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "Kripke on Rigid Designation".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "Synonymy Descriptivism".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Modal Argument(s)".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Epistemic Argument".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Semantic Argument".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Argument from Empirical Inadequacy".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes and the handout on "The Causal-Historical Theory of Reference".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes on "Names and Natural Kind Terms".

Click here to download a .pdf of my class notes on "The Illusion of Contingency and the Argument for Dualism".

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