Naming and Necessity\' has had a great and increasing influence.
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics, or in philosoph.
This seminal work, to which today\'s thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here reissued in a newly corrected form with a new preface by the author.
It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical Necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity.
Naming and Necessity\' has had a great and increasing influence