Review of Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1

Abstract

Philosophical Troubles is the first volume of Saul Kripke’s collected papers. It was originally to be called Bandersnatches in Dubuque, and Other Philosophical Troubles, after the observation, of which more later, that “whatever bandersnatches may be, certainly there are none in Dubuque.” The contents are nontechnical, with the partial exception of “Outline of a Theory of Truth” (1975). There are four canonical papers that most of us will have read; three lesser-known recent publications, on Russell, Frege, and presupposition; and six papers, almost half the volume, that appear only here.