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Alan Berger is prominent in his field, and his book Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric (MIT Press, 2002) has been described as "a major work." He specializes in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of logic, epistemology, and has strong research interests in the philosophy of mathematics.
At the Graduate Center, Berger is director of a new center that promotes the work of Saul Kripke, considered by many to be the greatest living philosopher, and he has contributed to and edited a forthcoming collection on Saul Kripke's work for the Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, which will contain the first discussion of much of Kripke's unpublished works. Berger holds a B.A. from Queens College and a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University.