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Saul Kripke
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| Born | November 13, 1940 |
| 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 |
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Main interests
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Logic (particularly modal) Philosophy of language Metaphysics Set theory Epistemology Philosophy of mind History of analytic philosophy |
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Notable ideas
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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 |
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.
Images for kids
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Example Kripke model for linear temporal logic, a particular modal logic
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Cover of Naming and Necessity
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Saul Kripke gives a lecture about Gödel at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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