Saul A. Kripke

(1940- ) lived at Omaha. Mathematician, philosopher, educator, known internationally for his philosophy of modal logic (which focuses on concepts of necessity and possibility), the relationships involving names and objects they determine, and the interpretation of the writings of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, all of which have contributed in important ways to the field of philosophy; recipient of the Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2001. Consult Omaha World Herald, September 7, 1977, p. 33 and Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol 5 (1998) 301-305 and Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Philosophers 1950-2000, Vol 279 (Gale, 2003) 134-153 and Current Biography (2004) 306-309.

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