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 Much of his work remains unpublished or exists only as tape-recordings and privately circulated manuscripts.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

Work

Kripke is best known for four contributions to philosophy: semantics for modal (and related) logics, published in several essays beginning while he was in his teens; his 1972 Princeton lectures Naming and Necessity, which significantly restructured philosophy of language and, as some have put it, "made metaphysics respectable again"; for a controversial and influential interpretation of Wittgenstein; for his contribution to developing formal theories of truth designed to handle the liar paradox.

Related Topics:
Philosophy of language - Wittgenstein - Liar paradox

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