Work
Kripke's contributions to philosophy include:
- Kripke semantics for modal and related logics, published in several essays beginning while he was still in his teens.
- His 1970 Princeton lectures Naming and Necessity (published in 1972 and 1980), that significantly restructured philosophy of language.
- His interpretation of Wittgenstein.
- His theory of truth.
He has also contributed to set-theory (see admissible ordinal and Kripke-Platek set theory)
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