Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The contingenta priori: An example free of existential worry

  • Published:
Philosophical Studies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Carter, William R. (1976) “OnA Priori Contingent Truths”,Analysis 36, 105–106.

    Google Scholar 

  • Donnellan, Keith S. (1979) “The ContingentA Priori and Rigid Designators”. In: Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr. and Howard K. Wettstein (eds.)Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, 45–60. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Evans, Gareth (1979) “Reference and Contingency”,Mind 62, 161–189.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kripke, Saul (1980)Naming and Necessity, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ray, Greg (1994) “Kripke & the Existential Complaint”,Philosophical Studies 74, 121–135 (this issue).

    Google Scholar 

  • Salmon, Nathan (1987) “How to Measure the Standard Metre”,The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society LXXXVIII, 193–217.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schiffer, Stephen (1979) “Naming and Knowing”. In: Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr. and Howard K. Wettstein (eds.)Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, 61–74. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tharp, Leslie (1989) “Three Theorems of Metaphysics”,Synthese 81, 207–214.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University, 85287-2004, Tempe, AZ, USA

    David Cowles

Authors
  1. David Cowles
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Cowles, D. The contingenta priori: An example free of existential worry. Philos Stud 74, 137–141 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989800

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989800

Search

Navigation