This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career.
Included here are seminal and much discussed pieces such as "Identity and Necessity", "Outline of a Theory of Truth", "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference", and "A Puzzle About Belief." More recent published articles include "Russell's Notion of Scope" and "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference" among others. Several articles are published here for the first time, including both older works ("Two Paradoxes of Knowledge", "Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities", "Nozick on Knowledge") as well as newer ("The First Person" and "Unrestricted Exportation"). "A Puzzle on Time and Thought" was written expressly for this volume.
Publication of this volume -- which ranges over epistemology, linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy, theory of truth, and metaphysics -- represents a major event in contemporary analytic philosophy. It will be of great interest to the many who are interested in the work of one its greatest living figures.

Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Identity and Necessity
Chapter 2. On Two Paradoxes of Knowledge
Chapter 3. Vacuous Names and Fictional Entities
Chapter 4. Outline of a Theory of Truth
Chapter 5. Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference
Chapter 6. A Puzzle About Belief
Chapter 7. Nozick on Knowledge
Chapter 8. Russell's Notion of Scope
Chapter 9. Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference: Some Exegetical Notes
Chapter 10. The First Person
Chapter 11. Unrestricted Exportation and and Some Morals for the Philosophy of Language
Chapter 12. Presupposition and Anaphora:
Remarks on the Formulation of the Projection Problem
Chapter 13. A Paradox about Time and Thought
Index

Saul A. Kripke is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at CUNY Graduate Center in New York and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.