Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke (b. 1940, Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska) is an American philosopher and logician now emeritus from Princeton and professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. He has been immensely influential in a number of fields related to logic and philosophy of language. Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts. He is nonetheless widely considered one of the most significant philosophers alive, and was the winner of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.

Biography

Saul Kripke is the oldest of three children born to Dorothy and Rabbi Myer Kripke. His father was the leader of Beth El Synagogue, the only Conservative congregation in Omaha. His mother wrote Jewish educational children's books. Saul and his two sisters, Madeline and Netta, attended Dundee Grade School in Omaha and Omaha Central High School. After graduating from high school in 1958, Kripke attended Harvard University, where he was roommates with noted constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe. Before becoming a professor at Princeton University, Kripke taught in the philosophy department at Rockefeller University in New York City. Kripke married (and recently divorced) Margaret Gilbert whose brother Martin Gilbert is a well-known British historian. They have no children.

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Dundee Grade School - Omaha Central High School - Harvard University - Princeton University - Philosophy - Rockefeller University - New York City - Margaret Gilbert - Martin Gilbert

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