On Language and Logic | Full Q&A | Saul Kripke, Timothy Williamson
79Saul Kripke and Timothy Williamson answer your questions on why language has come to dominate the field of philosophy, why logic matters, and what the future for the Anglo-American tradition looks like.
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Saul Kripke has been described by many as the world's most influential living analytic philosopher and in the top 10 of the last 200 years. Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University - an institution that has played a major role in the development of the analytic tradition in the last century. Hosted by Romina Padro, Director of the Saul Kripke Center in New York.
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Saul Kripke: Saul Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University. Since the 1960s, Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and set theory.
Timothy Williamson: Timothy Williamson has been the Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford since 2000. He was a lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, a fellow and tutor at University College Oxford, and Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. Williamson has contributed to analytic philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics and epistemology.
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