Saul Kripke | Wittgenstein and Kripkenstein

Analytic philosopher Saul Kripke explains his interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on language games and rule following has spawned decades of analytic philosophy, but interpretations of the Austrian philosopher's work vary greatly.

Eminent analytic philosopher Saul Kripke explains how he arrived at his own interpretation, now known as Kripkenstein, and discusses how scepticism and relativism can be found in Wittgenstein's work.

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. Saul Kripke is a logician, emeritus professor at Princeton and a Corresponding Fellow at the British Academy. He is best known for reintroducing modal concepts, such as necessity and possibility.

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[JoseSanchez-zotb]

Love Saul Kripke! A living legend, in my opinion.

[enfantines]

Your idea is quite influenced on whole philosophy sphere. Thank you for contributions.

[thstroyur]

"Kripkenstein" sounds like the ship you never knew you wanted
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[ryanjavierortega]

Thank you for this post of such a wonderful interview with such a Giant of Philosophy

[paulingraham]

Saul Kripke is one of the best philosophers of all time. One of the most extravagantly enlightening ideas of his is that once an object is "baptized" with the first use (the origin) of its name, it more reliably denotes that individual than any of the properties the individual might acquire during a lifetime that might evolve in multiple possible ways. Another one related to the one stated prior is that the rigidity of a proper name is only in connection with its early date. Any property that was established in the past is now unchangeable-required by having the quality of taking effect from a date in the past?-even if it could have been otherwise-so it too might serve as a rigid designator. The only absolute identity is the recognition of one's potential and qualities as an individual, in particular relating to the types of settings in which people are busy and active. All things are identical only to the group of objects previously mentioned as the subject of the unit of grammatical organization said to consist of that subject mentioned in the foregoing and a predicate.

[paulaustinmurphy]

My overall comment on this (rather than on any detail) is that I'm surprised about how critical Kripke is of Wittgenstein. I haven't really ever followed the whole "Kripkenstein" debate; though I always took Kripke to be a "follower" of Wittgenstein, if with a few added quibbles here and there.

[artem_ukraine_]

We love and remember you Saul. We miss you.

[ec]

he seems to be a genuinely fine human being

[die_schlechtere_Milch]

The interviewer asked a lot of boring questions, but at 7:25 Kripke starts to talk about what he and not Kripkenstein (Wittgenstein, as he struck Kripke) thinks of the sceptical solution to the sceptical paradox, until he is shut off by the interviewer.
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[GGilbertProduction]

He's probably issuing a Italian edition of "In Certainty", a'ma right?

[avantgardenovelist]

the autobio at the beginning felt like babe ruth informing us he's a baseball player.

[theorbization]

Arguably the most intelligent human alive today.

[winterramos]

When i need to speak to someone

I better call Saul

[ThePhilosophe]

How tasteless one should be to waste an interview with Saul Kripke on questions such as "do you object to 'Kripkenstein'?"! Seriously?

[edwardjones]

Kripke's argument is better than Wittgenstein's.

A J Ayer disposed of Wittgenstein's actual private language argument, such as it can be understood.

[accideux]

the only interpretation of wittgenstein is that he was essentially sauron

[RenRealism]

Eight dislike for a guilty Hodgetwins.

[WaveFunctionCollapsed]

did he believe in god
why he us not famous like william lane craig
i never heard about this guy
im from india
who is he explain ❤

[pixair]

Having read Naming and Necessity I wanted to be charitable but listening to this now I understand this guy was a clown