Saul Kripke: Philosophy, Language and Logic

A celebration of Saul Kripke's work
January 25-26, 2006

Elebash Recital Hall,
CUNY Graduate Center

The Ph.D/MA Program in Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center hosted a two day celebration of the work of Distinguished Professor Saul Kripke, entitled "Saul Kripke: Philosophy, Language and Logic," on the occasion of his sixty fifth birthday, on January 25-26, 2006.

The video of Saul Kripke's conference lecture, "The First Person," is available for download in .wmv format. The download requires a high-speed internet connection and Windows Media Player.

• "The First Person" [178 MB]
• Questions & Answers (incomplete) [3 MB]

Download the Conference Poster in PDF format.

Schedule

Wednesday, January 25

9.30 - 10.00:	Opening Ceremony Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, City University of New York President William Kelly, CUNY Graduate Center Alan Berger, Brandeis University
10.00 - 11.00:	Scott Weinstein	"Learning"
11.15 - 12.15:	Sally McConnell-Ginet	"Interests, Indexes, and Intensions"
2.00 - 3.00:	Scott Soames	"Two Kinds of Possibility: The Integrity of Kripke's Distinction between The Modal and The Epistemological"
3.15 - 5.00:	Saul Kripke	"The First Person"

Thursday, January 26

10.00 - 11.00:	Nathan Salmon	"The Nature of Existence"
11.15 - 12.15:	George Wilson	"Kripke's Wittgenstein Re-Visited"
2.00 - 3.00:	Carl Posy	"Kant via Kripke Models"
3.15 - 4.15:	Alan Berger	"Belief Attributions Containing Vacuous Names"
4.30 - 5.30:	Michael Devitt	"Rigid Application"

Sponsors

• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance,
  The City University of New York
• Ph.D. Program in Philosophy,
  The Graduate Center,
  The City University of New York

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