Saul Kripke facts for kids

Saul Kripke
Quick facts for kids Saul Kripke
Born	November 13, 1940 (age 80); Bay Shore, New York
Education	Harvard University (B.A., 1962)
Awards	Rolf Schock Prizes in Logic and Philosophy (2001)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Princeton University; CUNY Graduate Center
Main interests	Logic (particularly modal); Philosophy of language; Metaphysics; Set theory; Epistemology; Philosophy of mind; History of analytic philosophy
Notable ideas	Kripke–Platek set theory; Work on theory of reference (causal theory of reference, causal-historical theory of reference, direct reference theory, criticism of the Frege–Russell view); Admissible ordinal; Kripke structure; Rigid vs. flaccid designator; A posteriori necessity; The possibility of analytic a posteriori judgments; Semantic theory of truth (Kripke's theory); Non-analytic, a posteriori necessary truths; Contingent a priori; Kripke semantics; Disquotational principle; Accessibility relation; Rule-following paradox (Kripkenstein); Humphrey objection
	Influences Marcus · Frege · Curry · Lewis · Russell · Tarski · Wittgenstein · Dummett · Quine · Turing
	Influenced Burgess · Boghossian · Burge · Chalmers · Devitt · Evans · Field · Kaplan · Putnam · Salmon · Shoemaker · Soames · Weinstein · Yablo

Saul Kripke (born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. The work he is best known for is Naming and Necessity (1980). Much of his best known work deal with the logic and language. Kripke was born in Bay Shore, New York.

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Example Kripke model for linear temporal logic, a particular modal logic
Cover of Naming and Necessity
Saul Kripke gives a lecture about Gödel at the University of California, Santa Barbara.