Saul Kripke

Philosopher, Academic

1940 –

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Who is Saul Kripke?

Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is currently McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Princeton University and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. Kripke was the recipient of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. A recent poll conducted among philosophers ranked Kripke among the top ten most important philosophers of the past 200 years.

Kripke has made influential and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic. His work has profoundly influenced analytic philosophy, with his principal contribution being a semantics for modal logic, involving possible worlds as described in a system now called Kripke semantics.

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Born
Nov 13, 1940
Bay Shore
Also known as
  • Dr. Saul Kripke
  • Saul Aaron Kripke
Parents
Religion
  • Judaism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor's degree, Harvard University
    Mathematics
    ( - 1962)
Lived in
  • New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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