Week Three
1. What is the descriptive theory of names? What are Kripke's objections?
2. How does Evans characterize Kripke's Theory?
3. What is the Madagscar example? What is it supposed to show?
4. What is Evan's Causal/Information Centric Account?
5. What is it for an object to be the dominant source of information? Evans says re: dominance "in the case of persons,, for example, each man's life presents a skeleton and the dominant source may be the man who contributed to covering most of it rather than the man who contributed most of the covering. Detail in a particular area can be outweighed by spread.Also the believer's reasons for being interested in the item at all will weigh". What does he mean here?
6. What is it for an object to be a 'source' of information? Is Arthur Conan Doyle the source of my information about Sherlock Holmes? (If he is - does that mean I name Doyle when I utter "Sherlock"? If he isnt - why?)
2. How does Evans characterize Kripke's Theory?
3. What is the Madagscar example? What is it supposed to show?
4. What is Evan's Causal/Information Centric Account?
5. What is it for an object to be the dominant source of information? Evans says re: dominance "in the case of persons,, for example, each man's life presents a skeleton and the dominant source may be the man who contributed to covering most of it rather than the man who contributed most of the covering. Detail in a particular area can be outweighed by spread.Also the believer's reasons for being interested in the item at all will weigh". What does he mean here?
6. What is it for an object to be a 'source' of information? Is Arthur Conan Doyle the source of my information about Sherlock Holmes? (If he is - does that mean I name Doyle when I utter "Sherlock"? If he isnt - why?)
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