Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Philosophical Troubles
Kripke's 2011 'Philosophical Troubles' — Vol. 1 of Collected Papers, including 'A Puzzle about Belief' and 'Outline of a Theory of Truth'
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Philosophical Troubles (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Philosophical Troubles
2011 publication; papers composed 1962-2008.
Space
Philosophical Troubles
Princeton (Kripke's institutional base 1967-1998) and CUNY Graduate Center (Kripke's institutional base 2003-present).
Matter
Philosophical Troubles
Career-spanning essay collection (~430 pages). The thirteen essays cover an enormous range — modal logic, theory of truth, philosophy of language, theory of reference, epistemology, personal identity.
Observer
Philosophical Troubles
Late Kripke. The observer-philosopher is positioned at the close of a long career — the first volume of Collected Papers appearing fifty years after the 1959 'Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic'.
Energy
Philosophical Troubles
Late-synthesising energies. The volume gathers papers Kripke had been working on for decades, some never properly published.
Information
Philosophical Troubles
Single volume of 13 papers. 'A Puzzle about Belief' and 'Outline of a Theory of Truth' are the most-cited individual entries.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The principal late reference volume for Kripke's mature philosophy. The Liar paradox treatment in 'Outline of a Theory of Truth' is one of the major twentieth-century contributions to the logic of truth (alongside Tarski 1933 and the contemporaneous work of Herzberger, Gupta, and Belnap); the Paderewski case in 'A Puzzle about Belief' has been continuously discussed in philosophy of language.