Saul Kripke on Modal Logic

This edited volume brings together papers by both eminent and rising scholars to celebrate Saul Kripke's singular contributions to modal logic. Kripke's work on modal logic helped usher in a new semantic epoch for the field and made facility with modal logic indispensable not only to technically oriented philosophers but to theoretical computer scientists and others as well. This volume features previously unpublished work of Kripke's as well as a brief intellectual biography recounting the story of how Kripke became interested in, and made his first contributions to, modal logic. However, the majority of the volume's contributions are forward-looking, and produce new philosophical and technical insights by engaging with ideas tracing back to Kripke.

Auteur

Yale Weiss is the Assistant Director of the Saul Kripke Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD from the Graduate Center in 2019. He has published widely on logic (including on conditional, connexive, intuitionistic, modal, and relevance logic) and its history (with a focus on ancient logic). Romina Birman (née Padró) is the Director of the Saul Kripke Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center in 2015, with a dissertation entitled, "What the Tortoise Said to Kripke: The Adoption Problem and the Epistemology of Logic". Her research focuses on the epistemology of logic and the philosophy of language. She collaborated with Saul Kripke on numerous projects, including Philosophical Troubles.