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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Kripke has received more than 991,467 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Saul Kripke is the 533rd most popular philosopher (down from 516th in 2019), the 1,734th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,805th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Saul Kripke ranks 533 out of 1,267. Before him are Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Georg Henrik von Wright, Abraham Isaac Kook, Zhou Dunyi, Hippo, and Hans Vaihinger. After him are Polemon, Émile Boirac, Georges Canguilhem, Zeno of Sidon, Pietro d'Abano, and Paul Grice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Saul Kripke ranks 110. Before him are Víctor Erice, Fabrizio De André, Lothar de Maizière, Vladimir Cosma, Alan Kay, and Sadaharu Oh. After him are Vicente Fernández, Masahiro Hamazaki, Régis Debray, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Just Jaeckin, and Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy. Among people deceased in 2022, Saul Kripke ranks 86. Before him are Leonel Sánchez, Luis Echeverría, Peter Bogdanovich, Jürgen Grabowski, Ichirou Mizuki, and Fred Ward. After him are A. B. Yehoshua, David Sassoli, Margaret Keane, Evaristo Carvalho, Coolio, and Paul Veyne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 1,734 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Snowden (1983), Mark Felt (1913), Dean Stockwell (1936), John Densmore (1944), Roger Ebert (1942), and Jeffrey C. Hall (1945). After him are Alan Greenspan (1926), Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Joe Satriani (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), and Ving Rhames (1959).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 15. Before him are Ronald Dworkin (1931), Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), Daniel Dennett (1942), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), and Murray Bookchin (1921). After him are Kenneth Waltz (1924), Tom Regan (1938), Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Nancy Fraser (1947), and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892).

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