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Saul Kripke

1940 - 2022

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Saul Aaron Kripke (; November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic philosopher and logician. He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University. 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. Kripke made influential and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saul Kripke is the 529th most popular philosopher (up from 533rd in 2019), the 2,057th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,734th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Saul Kripke ranks 529 out of 1,267. Before him are Madhvacharya, Ludwig Büchner, Anaxarchus, Sivananda Saraswati, Manuel Chrysoloras, and Charles Taylor. After him are Karl-Otto Apel, Polemon, Ahmad Sirhindi, Carl Stumpf, Gianni Vattimo, and Myia.

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Among people born in 1940, Saul Kripke ranks 114. Before him are Jean-Luc Nancy, Kenneth Clarke, Max Mosley, James Brolin, Sepp Piontek, and Katharine Ross. After him are Jan Jongbloed, Mate Boban, Nobuyoshi Araki, Frida Boccara, Peter Diamond, and Gojko Mitić. Among people deceased in 2022, Saul Kripke ranks 95. Before him are Boris Pahor, Scott Hall, Viktor Saneyev, Wim Jansen, Leonel Sánchez, and Peter Bogdanovich. After him are Michel Bouquet, Javier Marías, Toshiki Kaifu, Patrick Tambay, David Warner, and Jürgen Grabowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 2,057 out of 20,380. Before him are Katharine Ross (1940), Carol Gilligan (1936), Scarlett Johansson (1984), Billy Crystal (1948), Owen D. Young (1874), and Bob Newhart (1929). After him are Barnett Newman (1905), Wade Williams (1961), Rose Kennedy (1890), William Styron (1925), Paul Krugman (1953), and Frederick Herzberg (1923).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 19. Before him are Daniel Dennett (1942), Martha Nussbaum (1947), Murray Bookchin (1921), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Nelson Goodman (1906), and Kenneth Waltz (1924). After him are Charles W. Morris (1903), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Nancy Fraser (1947), Tom Regan (1938), Jonathan Edwards (1703), and Arthur Danto (1924).

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