Skip to content

228,129 profiles ranked

Saul Kripke

American philosopher and logician (1940-2022) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 81

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.

Saul Kripke is read about 314 times a day, in 46 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

People around Saul

Also in Deutsch

Media & music

Photos 4

Example Kripke model for linear temporal logic, a particular modal logic

Example Kripke model for linear temporal logic, a particular modal logic

Cover of Naming and Necessity

Cover of Naming and Necessity

Saul Kripke gives a lecture about Gödel at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Saul Kripke gives a lecture about Gödel at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Awards

Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy2001

Guggenheim Fellowship

Fulbright Scholarship

About this person

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.

Country

United States

Category

Academics

Type

Academic

Status

Deceased

Dates

Lived 1940 to 2022 · aged 81

The same award as Saul

Dana ScottBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Thomas NagelBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Jaakko HintikkaBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Derek ParfitBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy

Saharon ShelahBoth received Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy