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Saul Kripke
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American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
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Saul Aaron Kripke was an American philosopher, university teacher, writer, and mathematician. Born in Bay Shore in 1940, he was educated at Harvard University under the doctoral advisor Willard Van Orman Quine. Kripke worked at Princeton University, the City University of New York, The Rockefeller University, and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His fields of work included contemporary philosophy, Western philosophy, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language. He was influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Van Orman Quine, Alfred Tarski, and Hilary Putnam. Kripke received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. His notable works include *Naming and Necessity* and *Règles et langage privé*. He wrote in English and adhered to Judaism. He died on September 15, 2022.
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- 1
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- Règles et langage privé
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-11-13 ) November 13, 1940, Bay Shore, New York , U.S.
- Died
- September 15, 2022 (2022-09-15) (aged 81), Plainsboro, New Jersey , U.S.
- Awards
- Rolf Schock Prizes in Logic and Philosophy (2001)
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA )
- 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
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aaron
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bay Shore
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sibling
- Madeline Kripke
- Occupation
- logician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Notable work
- Naming and Necessity
- Doctoral advisor
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Field of work
- modal logic
- Image
- Kripke.JPG
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- 1940-11-13
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- Clarence Irving Lewis
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- English language
- date of death
- 2022-09-15
- name in native language
- Saul Kripke
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- philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/kripke
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
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- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Saul Aaron Kripke (/ˈkrɪpki/; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic philosopher and logician. He was a distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a professor emeritus at Princeton University. From the 1960s until his death, he was a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical and modal logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and recursion theory.
Kripke made influential and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic. His principal contribution is a semantics for modal logic involving possible worlds, now called Kripke semantics. He received the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
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