Saul Kripke - Work

Work

Kripke's contributions to philosophy include:

  1. Kripke semantics for modal and related logics, published in several essays beginning while he was still in his teens.
  2. His 1970 Princeton lectures Naming and Necessity (published in 1972 and 1980), that significantly restructured philosophy of language.
  3. His interpretation of Wittgenstein.
  4. His theory of truth.

He has also contributed to set-theory (see admissible ordinal and Kripke-Platek set theory)

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