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Saul Kripke
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American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
OverviewAI-generated
Saul Kripke (1940–2022) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and university teacher. Born in Bay Shore, he was educated at Harvard University, where Willard Van Orman Quine served as his doctoral advisor. His academic career included positions at Princeton University, The Rockefeller University, and the City University of New York. Kripke’s fields of work encompassed contemporary philosophy, Western philosophy, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of language. He was influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alfred Tarski, and Hilary Putnam.
Kripke was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. A practitioner of Judaism, he wrote in English. His sibling was Madeline Kripke.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Règles et langage privé
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1915-06-10
- Active to
- 2005-04-05
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 25
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,563x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,648x
- UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
· 2018 · cited 9,512x
- A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins
· 1970 · cited 8,260x
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Quotes
- “It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.”
- “I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps … Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1940-11-13 ) November 13, 1940, Bay Shore, New York , U.S.
- Died
- September 15, 2022 (2022-09-15) (aged 81), Plainsboro, New Jersey , U.S.
- Awards
- Rolf Schock Prizes in Logic and Philosophy (2001)
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA )
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic
- Institutions
- Princeton University , CUNY Graduate Center
- Main interests
- Logic (particularly modal ), Philosophy of language , Metaphysics , Set theory , Epistemology , Philosophy of mind , History of analytic philosophy
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Encyclopedic overview
Saul Aaron Kripke (/ˈkrɪpki/; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic 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.
Kripke made influential and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic. His principal contribution is a semantics for modal logic involving possible worlds, now called Kripke semantics. He received the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
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