PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Saul Kripke
Distinguished Professor
Links:
- Kripke Center
- Saul Kripke: Philosophy, Language and Logic (January 25-26, 2006)
Research Interests
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- Logic
Courses Recently Taught
- Frege's Philosophy of Language (Spring 2007)
- Epistemic Justification of Logic (Fall 2006)
- Russell's Philosophy and Logic (Spring 2006)
- The Collapse of Hilbertism (Fall 2005)
- Logicism, Wittgenstein, and De Re Belief about Natural Numbers (Spring 2005)
- Topics in Philosophy of Language (Fall 2004)
- History of Logic and Set Theory (Spring 2004)
- Topics in Philosophy of Language; co-taught with Paul Horwich (Fall 2003)
- Topics in Philosophy of Language; co-taught with Alex Orenstein (Fall 2002)
- Naming and Necessity and Its Background; co-taught with Michael Devitt (Spring 2002)
Representative Publications
- Naming and Necessity. In D. Davidson and Harman, eds., Semantics of Natural Language. Dordrecht: Reidel, 253-355 and 763-769. (1972) Also Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1980)
- Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. (1982)
- "A Completeness Theorem in modal Logic," Journal of Symbolic Logic, 24, (1095), 1-14. (1959)
- "Is there a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?," in G. Evans and J. McDowell (eds.), Truth and Meaning; Essays in Semantics (Oxford), 324-419. (1976)
- "Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference," in French, Uehling, and Wettstein, Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 6-27. (1977)
- "A Puzzle about Belief," in A Margalit (ed.), Meaning and Use. Dordrecht: Reidel, 239-283. (1979)