Contemporary · Philosophy of Language, Logic
Saul Kripke (1940–2022) was an American philosopher and logician, a towering figure in analytic philosophy. He revolutionized the philosophy of language and metaphysics with works like 'Naming and Necessity,' introducing seminal concepts such as rigid designation and the causal theory of reference. He also made groundbreaking contributions to modal logic as a teenager and later worked in philosophy of mind and Wittgenstein interpretation.