Back to the Golden Age: Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity and Twenty‐First Century Philosophy

In this paper, I try to outline what take be Naming and Necessity's fundamental legacy my generation those that follow, the new perspectives it has opened up for twenty-first century philosophy. The discussion is subdivided into three sections, concerning respectively philosophy of language, metaphysics, metaphilosophy. general unifying theme Necessity helping recover a Golden Age, by freeing from strictures coming empiricist Kantian traditions reconnecting world objects populate it. Because this, in concluding paragraph tentatively suggest Kripke's may seen as sui generis form naturalism.