Saul Kripke
Saul Aaron Kripke was an American analytic philosopher and logician. He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor 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.
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- Born in
- Bay Shore
- Educated at
- Omaha Central High SchoolHarvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 Fulbright Scholarship🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Willard Van Orman Quine
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Mark Johnston📖 Scott Weinstein
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1940
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