![]() ![]() ‘Philosophy has become such an arcane discipline that it leaves most laymen gasping for meaning.’ It was also divided between two very different visions: ‘The technicians dream of one master key that could make a science of all philosophy, while the romantics dream of a “big move” that would make philosophy grab the world again and prove that philosophical intuition has not run dry.’ Yet despite these achievements, the New York Times noted, he was little known outside his field. ![]() What makes us the particular people we are? Does science tell us how the world must be, not just how it is? At thirty, Kripke gave the lectures that made his name – they were published as Naming and Necessity in 1972 – and he went on to write a groundbreaking book about Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. ![]() ![]() He went on to transform philosophy, reviving dormant metaphysical questions. Aged 17, he had proved a new result in modal logic – the logic of necessity and possibility – by building a mathematical model of ‘possible worlds’. I n August 1977, the New York Times ran a profile of the philosopher Saul Kripke, then 36 years old. ![]()
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