biography
pronunciation:
[kripkee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Philosopher and logician, born in Bay Shore, New York, USA. He studied at Harvard, then taught at Rockefeller University (1968–76) and Princeton (since 1976). As a youthful prodigy he made remarkable technical advances in modal logic, whose wider philosophical implications were later explored in such famous papers as ‘Naming and Necessity’ (1972). |
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