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Saul Aaron Kripke

1940 – 2022

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Wikipedia Summary

Saul Aaron Kripke was an American 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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
November 13, 1940
Bay Shore
Date of death
September 15, 2022
New York City
Citizenship

United States

Occupations & fields
philosopheruniversity teacherwritermathematicianlogician
Awards & honours
Guggenheim FellowshipRolf Schock Prize in Logic and PhilosophyFulbright Scholarship
Notable works
Naming and Necessity
Field and occupation
americký filozof a logik
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