Saul Aaron Kripke (/sɔːl ˈkrɪpki/; born November 13 1940) is an American philosopher and logician. He is currently McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since the 1960s Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic philosophy of language philosophy of mathematics metaphysics epistemology and set theory.
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Set theory, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Modal logic, Logic
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Causal theory of reference, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Rigid designator, Kripke semantics, Kripke structure (model checking), Admissible ordinal, Kripke–Platek set theory
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