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 Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts.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.

Wittgenstein

Kripke also made interesting contributions to the study of the later Wittgenstein in lectures published as Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, although his work here has been faulted for being not particularly true to the historical Wittgenstein. Indeed, many philosophers refer to the subject of Kripke's book as "Kripkenstein," on the grounds that the argument it presents would not have been endorsed by Wittgenstein. (For alternative readings of Wittgenstein, see Colin McGinn's Wittgenstein on Meaning.) Kripke's book has also been faulted for not giving credit to other authors who interpreted Wittgenstein similarly (see Robert J. Fogelin's Wittgenstein). Kripke's influence has been substantial, but much of his work, unfortunately, exists only in tape-recorded or transcript form.

Related Topics:
Wittgenstein - Kripkenstein

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