Died 2022-09-15.
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Saul Kripke
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,…
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science · American philosopher and logician (1940–2022) · philosopher · university teacher · writer · mathematician · logician · also Saul Kripke, Saul Aaron Kripke, Saul A. Kripke, Kripke
Born 13 November 1940 · Died 15 September 2022 · Q298521
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2022· 3 entries
In Plainsboro, New Jersey, at the age of 81
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“Es realmente una buena teoría. El único defecto que creo que tiene es, probablemente, común a todas las teorías filosóficas. Está mal.”
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2013· 1 entry
Oxford University Press published the lectures as a book, also titled Reference and Existence
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2002· 1 entry
Kripke began teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center, and in 2003 he was appointed a distinguished professor of philosophy there
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy (2001).
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1988· 1 entry
Received the university's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities
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1985· 1 entry
Was a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
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1982· 1 entry
Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language contends that the central argument of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations centers on a devastating rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our
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1980· 1 entry
As Naming and Necessity, is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century
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1978· 1 entry
Took a chaired professorship at Princeton University
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1972· 1 entry
And 1980), which significantly restructured philosophy of language
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1968· 1 entry
To Rockefeller University in New York City, where he taught until 1976
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1963· 3 entries
“I wish I could have skipped college. I got to know some interesting people but I can”
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“Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic”
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Kripke responded to a difficulty with classical quantification theory
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1962· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, bachelor's degree (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
“A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic”
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1958· 1 entry
Kripke attended Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-11-13.
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