How successful are Kripkes criticisms of a descriptive theory of names? What does he suggest as an alternative?

The meaningfulness and referentiality of names will be the central focus of this essay paper. Within this paper I will focus on descriptive and causal theories of names, providing an explanation of how the referential theory provides the background for Kripkes causal picture. According to referential theory, the meaning of a name just is the individual entity the name refers to, within its context of use.  Kripke challenges the context of use; identifying speaker disposition and introducing the variable of other possible worlds.  He uses the descriptive theory to pinpoint criticisms and create his own…(short extract)