Saul Kripke on Modal Logic

Yale Weiss is the Assistant Director of the Saul Kripke Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD from the Graduate Center in 2019. He has published widely on logic (including on conditional, connexive, intuitionistic, modal, and relevance logic) and its history (with a focus on ancient logic). Romina Birman (née Padró) is the Director of the Saul Kripke Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center in 2015, with a dissertation entitled, “What the Tortoise Said to Kripke: The Adoption Problem and the Epistemology of Logic”. Her research focuses on the epistemology of logic and the philosophy of language. She collaborated with Saul Kripke on numerous projects, including Philosophical Troubles.

• Chapter 1: Introduction (Yale Weiss and Romina Birman).- Chapter 2: Saul Kripke: A portrait of the modal logician as a young man (Yale Weiss and Romina Birman).- Chapter 3: Beyond knowledge of the model (Sergei Artemov).- Chapter 4: The logic of logical necessity.- Chapter 5: Relational patterns, partiality, and set lifting in modal semantics (Johan van Benthem).- Chapter 6: Entailment, mingle and binary accessibility (Katalin Bimbó and J. Michael Dunn).- Chapter 7: Modal, Fuzzy, . . . , Vanilla fixpoint theories of truth: A uniform approach (Melvin Fitting).- Chapter 8: Logics for rigidity (James W. Garson).- Chapter 9: A letter from Kripke to Lewis (Saul A. Kripke).- Chapter 10: Individual concepts: Their logic, philosophy, and some of their uses (Saul A. Kripke).- Chapter 11: Nested sequents or tree-hypersequents – A survey (Björn Lellmann and Francesca Poggiolesi).- Chapter 12: A proof-theoretic approach to formal epistemology (Sara Negri and Edi Pavlović).- Chapter 13: Mission impossible (Graham Priest).- Chapter 14: Substructural negations as normal modal operators (Heinrich Wansing).- Chapter 15: New(ish) foundations for theories of entailment (Yale Weiss).- Chapter 16: Accepting a logic, accepting a theory (Timothy Williamson).